It is said that the human soul has a weight.
In 1907, a physician in Massachusetts, USA, named Duncan MacDougall, under the theory that the soul is a material thing, performed an experiment where he placed critically ill patients on a bed equipped with scales, weighed them before and after death, and compared the results.
The results of these measurements on a total of six people showed a weight loss of between 14 and 35 grams, with the average weight of 21.5 grams being the weight of the soul.
However, this experiment has been met with considerable opposition and was dismissed as spurious because the physician's measuring equipment was quite poor and the measurement method was sloppy.
Furthermore, doctors have performed this experiment on dogs in addition to humans, and the results showed no weight loss, leading to the surprising conclusion that dogs do not have souls.
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