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The Orb Phenomenon...
 
A growing controversy: An orb is a small, often semi-transparent circle of light found in photos. Many people who research the paranormal believe these orbs to be a visual form of energy being transferred to the spirit. According to the natural laws of physics, when energy is transferred like this it assumes its natural form, a sphere. This would also explain why we often get fluctuations on Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) meters during spirit activity. They are gaining energy from our physical world and therefore changing the Electro-Magnetic Fields of our world. Other people, however, believe that these small circles of light have nothing paranormal to them but instead they are caused by dust, insects or moisture amongst other things reflecting the light. A claim they back up by experimenting with taking photos after filling the air with dust to create fake orbs. Our belief that these orbs are of paranormal nature is hard if not impossible to prove, and is made harder by the fact that most people who don't believe it, also don't believe in spirits.
I am not saying that every photo I take that has an orb in it is really a spirit gathering energy. As the experiments of people have shown, dust, moisture and insects can all reflect light in ways that make them look like orbs. However, that isn't to say that all pictures containing orbs are caused by dust, moisture, or insects. For example, lets take another controversial photography topic, UFOs. I could go out into my back yard throw a Frisbee in the air and take a picture of it from a distance and claim it is a UFO. This does not mean that all UFO pictures are Frisbees.

There are also several flaws with the theory that these orbs are dust:
You can sit in a room and take 100 pictures facing the same direction. Although you will end up with some that have orbs, many won't proving the air is not just full of dust making all pictures appear to have orbs.
The dust theory is further discredited when we start to look at videos of orbs. All too often an orb will come on at one side of the screen move along a path and exit again by going off the side of the screen. Even if this camera is stationary for hours and left recording this might be the only orb you get. But that orb was lit for a good period of time of a fairly long path, and yet none of the other billions of particles of dust entered that path and became lit during the course of the recording? To this you may answer: "But the conditions have to be exactly right for the dust to reflect back at the right angle for the camera to pick it up", and a valid point you would have. But again if this were true would it not be more likely that the orb would have appeared mid screen for a small amount of time and then disappeared mid screen again?

The truth is that nobody knows what causes orbs in each individual photo, unless you set up an experiment with dust or some other anomaly, and the sad fact is we likely never will know. We will all believe what we want to believe.
 
 
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