Think There’s Life After Death? Scientists Say It’s Not Possible
A scientist claims there is no life after death because the laws of physics make it impossible.
After extensive studies, physicist Sean Carroll says for there to be an afterlife, our consciousness would need to be entirely separated from our physical body – which it is not.
Consciousness is a series of atoms and electrons which give us our mind, he says. The laws of the universe do not allow these atoms and electrons to continue to operate after our bodies have died.
Dr Carroll, a cosmologist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, explained:
‘Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms faces one huge insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood.
‘There’s no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die,’ he wrote in the Scientific American.
Dr Carroll says that Quantum Field Theory (QFT) suggests there is one field for each type of particle. So all photons in the universe are on one level, all electrons in the universe are on another level and so on.
For life to be able to continue after death, he says tests on the quantum field would have revealed ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ – which they have not.
‘If it’s really nothing but atoms and the known forces, there is clearly no way for the soul to survive death. ‘Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the standard model,’ he said.
Original Article Source: Metro
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