Did Quantum Physics Just Prove After Life?:

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• bioixi Member Posts: 764 Arc User

  November 2015

  If I learned something about quantum physics is that anything can happen at anytime for no reason.

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• artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter

  November 2015

  No.​​

  
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• jonsills Member Posts: 10,446 Arc User

  November 2015

  I don't even have to watch the video to know that Artan's correct - the answer is "no". In fact, certain implications of some interpretations of quantum entanglement imply that consciousness is an artifact of a living brain, and that there can be no "afterlife" because there's nothing there after the brain shuts down, any more than there's an "afterlight" that the photons go to when you hit the off switch on a lamp.
  
  Keep in mind that I disagree with those interpretations, and they're not exactly mainstream in the first place; the point, however, is that quantum mechanics has nothing to do with the phenomenon of consciousness. Some folks like to whip out terminology that was invented to help explain complex mathematical concepts in a language ill-suited to them, but they often use the terms in a fashion that immediately informs one that they aren't aware of what physicists mean by them. ("Quantum entanglement", for instance, does not mean "we're all one" - it refers to a pair of particles that are made to resonate with one another, to become "entangled" in the parlance, such that a change in state of one is reflected by an opposite change in state of the other. Einstein didn't like the notion, and called it "spooky action at a distance".)

  

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• sonicshower Member Posts: 216 Arc User

  November 2015

  We just turn back into space dust after a few billion years and turn back into something else. Hopefully a gas giant like Uranus.

  
  

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