Quantum physics proves that there IS an after

[sean6]

Quantum physics proves that there IS an afterlife, claims scientist

Most scientists would probably say that the concept of an afterlife is either nonsense, or at the very least unprovable.

Yet one expert claims he has evidence to confirm an existence beyond the grave - and it lies in quantum physics.

Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness.

http://www.dailymail...-scientist.html

Edited November 15, 2013 by sean6

[Mikko-kun]

Humans are being taught about death, have been all the time. Though my parents weren't nor ain't religious, not my mother at least, she told me about death when I was 3 or 4 or so. I remember that clearly, it's not something we learn through experience. It would be probably different if we figured those things out ourselves, I dont think animals know of death the same way we do though they too may sense danger and all that. There's a stigma attached to what is being taught about death. That you need to be good to avoid something you dont know, or that it's this big scary unknown place, a vast emptiness that makes your heart shrink. I know because that feeling haunted me for a good while when I thought I was supposed to be atheist. Life itself is unpredictable and unknown but we're not so afraid of life.

I can fathom time and space being in the eye of the beholder instead of hard-fixed things in our reality. His bottom line seems to be that observing things causes them to change. And to observe is to be conscious of something, observing is merely the link to our consciousness. I'm thinking it's not an either-or thing whether you're conscious or not of something, but how conscious you are of that something. It's just when certain tresholds in how strongly things are observed, those tresholds being breached, we see changes.

[thyra]

I understand what i see can not be present without my consciousness thats ok but I dont understand how consciousnes doesnt die with death in the explained article though. perhaps I read fast and missed a part.

[Mr Supertypo]

doesent sound like science to me, more like philosophy.

[sepulchrave]

The theory seems like garbage to me, especially since Prof. Lanza's interpretation of the double slit experiment has been definitively disproven (it doesn't matter whether any conscious observer sees which slit the photons pass through, only that a machine capable of making that measurement is available).

Although it is possible that the article is trivializing Lanza's arguments...

[Emma_Acid]

Lanza is a medical doctor, not a physicist. There's no reason to publish his misguided wafflings about quantum physics over anyone else's.

[Rlyeh]

So something non-conscious such as a camera should not record the illusion of space? And yet it does.

[Leonardo]

Here is Dr Lanza's website where he discusses his 'theory' of Biocentrism.

I remain unconvinced of his premise - that "life creates or defines the universe". It seems to me to be little more than a nod to anthropocentrism - with a lot of 'sciencey' language thrown in to sound good.

[bmk1245]

The theory seems like garbage to me, especially since Prof. Lanza's interpretation of the double slit experiment has been definitively disproven (it doesn't matter whether any conscious observer sees which slit the photons pass through, only that a machine capable of making that measurement is available).

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Thats just a minor obstacle for quantum woos, i.e. experimenters consciously built experiment, ergo - conscious observer (observation).

[Lilly]

LOL @ "quantum woos". It's pretty funny how people attempt to apply science to ideas that are actually based on faith/belief. This kind of thing never works, but it certainly doesn't stop some people from trying.

Edited November 15, 2013 by Lilly
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[bmk1245]

LOL @ "quantum woos". It's pretty funny how people attempt to apply science to ideas that are actually based on faith/belief. This kind of thing never works, but it certainly doesn't stop some people from trying.

... and selling quantum spinal alignment (whatever that means), and similar stuff...

[Gomar]

nothing but some psycho-babble nonesense.

Why doesnt he show evidence by contacting a dead person, ask some questions unknown

to scientists, such as cure for AIDS, closest planet with life, where are Jimmy Hoffa, Emilia Earnhardt, that missing black kid in NYC, who Jesus really was, etc.

[Junior Chubb]

I have got a headache trying to wrap my head around this idea...

or have I fabricated myself a headache to represent my inability to wrap my head around this idea?

[SilentHunter]

The theory seems like garbage to me, especially since Prof. Lanza's interpretation of the double slit experiment has been definitively disproven (it doesn't matter whether any conscious observer sees which slit the photons pass through, only that a machine capable of making that measurement is available).

Although it is possible that the article is trivializing Lanza's arguments...

A measuring instrument bringing into existence particles from waves doesn't disprove that human observation can have the same affect. All it proves is that anything conducting measurements (eyes, ears, other human senses, non human senses) can do it.

[baro67]

in practice this man is saying that life and death space-time universe are just illusions created by the mind and for all we know will cease to exist along with us after death .. I do not know about you, but I see a slight contradiction in this theory

[andy4]

So something non-conscious such as a camera should not record the illusion of space? And yet it does.

That's true, but lets say the camera takes a picture in outer space, and sends it back to us. The observation the camera made is pointless without a human observing the picture it took, so as far as we would be concerned, without us, there would be no picture. We, as humans, would never know unless the picture was sent back to us.

I also meant to say, that you can take the above example and replace the picture with the entire physical universe that we've observed. I believe it's pointless without a conscious observer, and without us, it simply wouldn't exist. Based only on the fact that we wouldn't also.

Edited November 18, 2013 by andy4

[pallidin]

I'll reserve comment until after I die...

[andy4]

I'll reserve comment until after I die...

Good luck on commenting back to us! Lol

I don't understand why some are so hard on his theory, I mean if you weren't alive or ever born, nothing would exist, relative to you. So relative to us, without us, the universe wouldn't exist.

Quantum physics is a very strange thing to delve into.

[pallidin]

Quantum physics is a very strange thing to delve into.

Indeed it is, and most don't fully appreciate that quantum physics is the the foundational under-pinning of all "macro-existance"

The quantum world is very strange, to be sure.

[andy4]

Indeed it is, and most don't fully appreciate that quantum physics is the the foundational under-pinning of all "macro-existance"

The quantum world is very strange, to be sure.

Most definitely, and we really dont even know why particles act the way they do or how they even got here. And it's the basis for all of our physical realities! What a mind boggle.

Row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily, life is but a dream.

We all knew this once upon a time.

Edited November 18, 2013 by andy4

[The Exorcist]

The quantum world seems indeed very strange.

I have read what information is freely available about Robert Lanza's biocentrism theory, and, although it is interesting, I don't think he really provides much by way of concrete evidence to support his ideas.

I believe, however, that Einstein himself thought that time was an illusion. When one of his good friends Michele Besso died, Einstein supposedly said "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". I don't know what exactly Einstein meant by this, or what it tells us about his understanding (or ideas) about death. It does, however, show that he believed time to be an illusion. What this really means, I don't know.

[ancient astronaut]

This **** went way over my head. Just saying.

[Leonardo]

I believe, however, that Einstein himself thought that time was an illusion. When one of his good friends Michele Besso died, Einstein supposedly said "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". I don't know what exactly Einstein meant by this, or what it tells us about his understanding (or ideas) about death. It does, however, show that he believed time to be an illusion. What this really means, I don't know.

Einstein was a brilliant physicist, but it doesn't follow from that, that everything he thought about concerning physics was true, or that everything he said and is quoted as saying) was also true, or even profound.

Take what he said above, that you quoted. If it is what he actually said, then I would disregard the statement as something to be automatically taken as "profound truth", or even simply "truth" - because no-one believes in physics, except those who don't have any understanding of it.

Physics isn't something you believe in, it's something you comprehend - because it is demonstrable.

[paperdyer]

So something non-conscious such as a camera should not record the illusion of space? And yet it does.

Only because we perceive it does. This gets back to your perception finally being your reality whether it's actually perceived as real by anyone else. If this wasn't the case we wouldn't need the looney bins.

[pallidin]

This **** went way over my head. Just saying.

No worries... no one really understands it anyway. It's chock-full of mysteries.

I once heard by some noted physicist(to paraphrase)... "If you understand quantum physics, you don't understand it at all"

So, you're in good company.