What is Explainable? (Particulate Contamination)

You can easily explain away camera anomalies when it comes to using a flash. The new digital cameras, and their compact size means the flash is closer to the lens illuminating every particle moving past the lens field of view.

Thus the ORB was born.

It is usually the inexperienced paranormal investigator's most prized catch. Is what I, and most everyone in the real world calls DUST.

I have heard every type of explanation of why their ORBs are real spirit ORBs because.

• It glowed: Is there a light source, any light source? Your camera cannot record in total darkness unless it is infrared. Infrared is a light source.
• It manifested then vanished: the particle merely moved in, and out of the light source.
• If you look closely, the spirit ORB has a face in it.

Pareidolia: A psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) perceived as significant.

Anyone that can read and take instruction can put a face in an Orb. 

I created this one with Photoshop, and I'm not dead yet. So don't be fool by bullshit like this, and there are more fakes than real evidence.

The below paragraph can help explain the majority of ORBs. The rest are reflections, lens flairs, bugs, and lighting. So if the ORB changes direction, or in one picture, but not the others? This is why...

The air in any room even if the room is sealed is constantly moving. You do not need an open window to have airflow. Simply put; particles move around in static charged clusters of particulate matter be it dust, moisture, plant pollen, and spores. One other point I wanted to make about spores, and other particulates is that lighting conditions effect the color, so each person has a different perspective of what that color is. Temperature changes create convection currents that continuously circulate the air in every room. Hot air rises, and cold air falls, but there is more to this story. The hot air molecules, as they rise pushes against other air molecules that move out of the way causing some air molecules to cool, or heat up depending on walls, windows, and other surfaces causing continuously changing currents of air..

One of the arguments I have heard repeatedly about ORBs is that it cannot be dust because I had the place cleaned. Human beings are the biggest cause of the particulate contamination in the first place if there was only one person in the room. How much particle contamination can one person produce in just one hour?

The human body made up of around 10 trillion cells. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells according to a person's size. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells.

Perspiration (sweat) exuded through the pores of the skin to the surface has a cooling effect due to latent heat (heat released by the body) in the evaporation of moisture. The skin secretes salts, water, and an oily/waxy substance, called sebum, to lubricate and waterproof the surface of your skin and hair.

Excretion through sweat glands is the process by which waste products of metabolism and other surplus substances that may have a lethal effect eliminated from an organism, and must therefore excreted. This includes nitrogen compounds, water, CO2, phosphates, and sulfates. Our maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2-4 liters per hour or 10-14 liters per day.

Hair everyone loses between 40 and 120 strands a day, depending on how much hair you have, your age and your hair's growth cycle. People with fine hair tend to have more of it and therefore will lose more of it than their thicker-haired sisters and brothers. Your hair also thins, as you get older, particularly after menopause for women while aging men experience thinning. (1.6 to 5 strands of hair per hour)

Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs. In addition to removing carbon, dioxide and other waste gases. Breathing results in loss of water from the body. Exhaled air has a relative humidity of 100% because of water diffusing across the moist surface of breathing passages and alveoli.

Adults lose nearly two to three quarts (12 cups or 2.8 liters) of water every day through the process of breathing. Although estimates may vary due to changes in climate, or increased activity. (1/2 cup or 0.11 liters of water by breathing per hour)

Microscopic Parasites the most common are dust mites that inject skin-dissolving saliva into their host and consume the liquefied skin. Of course, dust mites because their microscopic cast skins and feces are one of the causes of airborne allergens. One dust mite is 200 to 400 microns in length and at any given time there are tens of thousands, to tens of millions living off you, right now!

You may not have realized, but the above statistics are describing the amounts of particulates generated from one "naked" human being. If we were to add clothes, the list of contaminants from clothing alone would run off the page into the abyss. From our surrounding environment, and lifestyle we expose ourselves to food particles, pet hair/dandruff, and building materials a lot of which are the components of dust such as concrete, and plaster. Particulates generated from any material when disturbed, and if the materials were in a state of deterioration, there would be a concentration of that particular type of airborne particulate. Finally yet importantly contaminants from outside in the air that are brought in with you, dirt, plant pollen, spores, fungi, and other man made pollutants.

Dust is mostly composed of dead skin cells, dessicated corpses of dust mites that eat the dead skin cells, and their feces. Building materials such as plaster, fibers from clothing, and other man made pollutants.

The other argument I have heard was; it cannot be dust because I have HEPA - (High-Efficiency Particulate Air) filters installed. There is a presumption that all particulates in the air would be removed? Filters meeting the HEPA standard must remove 99.97% of all particles greater than 0.3 micron from the air that passes through it, again from the air that passes through the filter. This would greatly depend on how efficient the ventilation system is at the location. Then again if we compared it to a semiconductor manufacturer clean room that has a low-level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. That classified in terms of the number and sizes of particles suspended in its atmosphere according to ISO - 14644-1 cleanroom standards. To illustrate, in a Class 100 cleanroom, a cubic foot of air allowed only having 100 particles whose size is 0.5 micron. A particle defined as a solid or liquid object between 0.001 and 1000 microns in size. I wanted to emphasize that even in the cleanest rooms in the world there is still particulate contamination.

The nearest thing to a human Spirit in a ORB, are the dead skin cells that came from you, and everyone else that had passed through the room that makes up DUST...

Insects: Are mistaken for fairies, spirit ORBs, Ghosts, and Angels. Bug are very colorful and highly luminescent that little green, or blue ORB as it buzzed bye, and depending on the cameras shutter speed can make bright streaks. Moths have been mistaken for ORB and Angels depending on how out of focus they are. Grasshoppers in flight with their legs extended look like little people with wings, yep fairies! Insects crawling across the lens of a camera looks like a blurry moving apparition. Which gives the illusion that a Ghost is walking through the room, but was only a bug moving across the lens.