# Do loved ones contact us after death? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-loved-ones-contact-us-after-death/648596 "2013-01-28T06:57:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
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> [@Kaio](#): > > Anyway, I imagine you could be trained in the perception of this sort of phenomena, in which case we’d have observations in common, at least as reliable as witnesses at a crime scene (i.e. even when people see the exact same thing, their perceptions of it differ, often radically). On the other hand, we discovered the Higgs Boson just within the last year. Why couldn’t we “see” it a hundred years ago, or even ten? We hadn’t invented and built the proper equipment yet. Scientist doing the research had reason to believe there was a Higgs Boson particle. There was observable, repeatable evidence to suggest there was a Higgs Boson particle. Once it was observed, nobody claimed others would only be able to see it if they were properly trained to see the Higgs Boson particle. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-loved-ones-contact-us-after-death/648596)._