SEAN CARROLL, a cosmologist and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), claims that life after death, an idea promoted by many world religions, is physically impossible.
"We fully understand the laws of physics that stand in the background of everyday life," Carroll said, adding that everything that is happening in reality must be within the framework of the potential.
To have life after death, consciousness would have to be separated from our physical body, and that is not the case, the physicist claims.
Matter creates consciousness
Consciousness, on a very elementary level, is a series of atoms and electrons that make up what we call the mind.
Physical laws do not allow these particles to function in this way after human death, says Carroll.
"The idea that some kind of consciousness exists after our bodies die and fall apart on the constituent atoms has a great, irresistible problem: we fully understand the laws of physics that determine our everyday life and there is no way for these laws to permit" survival "information stored in our brains after death," Carroll wrote for Scientific American.
Carroll calls for a quantum field theory, which, in a simple sense, says that each kind of particle creates its own field.
For example, all photons in the universe have their own field, just like all electrons and other types of particles.
If there is a life after death, we could measure it
Carroll explains that, if life goes on in any way after death, quantum field testing reveals "spiritual power" or "spiritual particle," which is not happening.
"If there are really only atoms and known powers, there is no way for a human soul to survive death," Carroll wrote.
"The belief in life after death requires, in a mere manner, a physics that goes beyond the standard model, and most importantly, there should be a way to" react in this new physics "with some of the atoms that make us. "spiritual particles" and "spiritual forces" that interact with our ordinary atoms in order to otherwise detect them in existing experiments, "Carroll says.
Life after death is "dramatically incompatible" with modern knowledge
Once all the scientists accept it, we will be able to begin to understand the way the human mind works, he is convinced by a physicist from Caltech.
"There is no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. Once we overcome our reluctance to face the reality of this, we can deal with much more interesting issues, such as the ways in which human consciousness it really works, "concludes Carroll.
Once Mr. Carroll overcomes his reluctance to face reality...
There are way too many mysteries that are outside of science while scientists cannot even explain many many mysteries inside of science.
There are many cases of near death, where people have died, gone to the other side, met dead relatives, learned of things they couldn't possibly know and returned to life.
A good place to begin is a book and a movie called "Heaven is For Real"
Thanks for sharing... Love it.
Thank you :)
more reasons to want to live forever!
Yea ,true I also wish that there is some key to live forever :)
I find the subject of what happens after death hard because there is no way f proving what happens to us but I think that is where faith over takes science because we can have hope there is something after death.
Maybe I really dont know.Bible and Kuran and other religious books are created by human so there is good change that religion is just our fantasy but I wish that God exist,that is more fair.
I know what you mean. I have put massive effort in reading the Bible but at the same time it's written by humans and that makes it so hard to believe and to have faith, I'm with you, I wish God existed.