Sorry to comment on ur comment Marie, but even a photon has a mass. Think about deBroglie..particle vs. waves..it is very, very small..but still not massless. (I know that we assume e- e.g. to have a mass of 0u, but it is (if I remember correctly) 1/1200 or so of the mass of a proton which is as you know 1u).
the problem is however that according to Catholic doctrine, souls are wholly spiritual and have no physical being at all. Although the idea has been rejected in the past by Protestant theorists - the idea of the soul and of spiritual beings such as angels being made of "subtle substance" can be read in Milton. But I suspect that in this as in many other things, modern Protestants have abandoned their fathers' views. However, we might remember that we Catholics also believe in the resurrection of the body, and that it is a transfigured body, as well as a soul, that is destined for eternal life. Including eternal damnation. So the young man missed a bet there: he had no need to introduce the unphilosophical notion of a bodily soul, just to consider how many resurrected bodies will head for Hell after the Last Judgement.
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Oh, this just made my day. I wish I could get questions like that in exams - though I doubt I'd come up with anything this funny.
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However, I could have that the wrong way round, like absorption and adsorption. Or was it apsorption? Ack.
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(I'm not trying to be funny; chemistry was never my best subject so I'm trying hard to understand, honest!)
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