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stephen kirby's avatar

There is no ''after'' life for you, there is only ''another'' life, and this is because, per the first rule of thermodynamics: Energy is never lost, only converted into another kind of matter or energy, (in the form of heat).

All life is everlasting, including yours, just not the current version of life that you perceive as yours.

The remarkable thing about your next ''other'' life, is that it will be so engrossing and so energetic that your sub-subatomic 'action potential' of a memory will not even know about or miss or even care about what you think your last ''other'' life was all about.

You get a new-to-you ''other'' life, free from all the regrets and remorse that you have accumulated in this life, and available to experience all the revelations and discoveries that your new ''other'' life has to offer.

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Michael Portelance's avatar

With respect Robert, how do you know or what are you basing this declaration on? Thanks

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stephen kirby's avatar

Michael, how did you get the name 'Robert' out of my post?

With respect, Michael, I am basing my declaration on the fact that I was 'born' when a spark of life-giving energy fused my mother's seed (ovum) with my father's seed (sperm), and I will 'depart this version of life' when the last erg of life-giving energy leaves my corporeal form. That, and the first 'law' of Thermodynamics which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only converted from one form to another.

As regards this 'version of my life', and thus stands, (for me), for what happens with every living entity's 'version of their life', it means that that last erg of energy, what I like to call the entity which holds the entirety of Me, will still exist, just in some other 'form'.

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Kristine's avatar

This idea makes me sad though bc I think of my family

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stephen kirby's avatar

Kristine, ''All life is everlasting, including yours, just not the current version of life that you perceive as yours,'' made you sad? How sad is that! You say you'll think about your family, and yet, you'll immediately have a new one, and you'll be so busy being involved with them that you won't even miss your old family, and that is how it is, not just how it should be.

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Kristine's avatar

Who would want to forget their family?

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stephen kirby's avatar

You don't purposely 'forget' you family, you just become so busy living your new life, that you don't find it 'necessary' to try and reflect back on your old life.

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Ken Derow's avatar

Ms. Hossenfelder (LOVE your name BTW), I've long believed that there's a field of consciousness that permeates every parsec of the universe and at birth some of this consciousness field becomes embedded in our being & upon our death, it melds back into the universal field. Sadly, our personal sense of identity & individual consciousness is lost, so upon the death of our body, for us as individuals there's nothing but a void. Not the end I would choose, but, my take is that it's the end that we all will face. PEACE, KEN DEROW

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Kev's avatar

The physics of “dead” Grandma's?

I think that you meant:

The physics of “still alive” Grandmas.

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Witold Riedel's avatar

This is something many thought systems have been describing in various ways? And we can only assume that there have been many more thoughts about this that have not been embalmed in thought systems and religions. It is interesting that we can arrive at similar conclusions while digging at it from various directions. Perhaps this might sound controversial but all this is not only reducing my fear of passing but also increases my joy of being roughly where I happen to be at the moment. Whatever that expression might mean.

Writing this in an electrico in Lisbon and I can’t express what lovely elderly people are sat across from me.

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Marie Bryant's avatar

My husband watches her show every single day! I catch it when I can. I'm always astonished at the research and preparation that goes into every single daily episode.

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Dani's avatar

What's special relativity without reflection?

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suzanne's avatar

I'm stuck with Alice on the train. Alice actually is traveling at the same speed as the light so how can she be closer to the front light than the back light which is also traveling the same speed as Alice assuming both lights are traveling the speed of light but Alice is presumably traveling more slowly...yikes, I may have answered my own question! Thanks for this opportunity to exercise a part of my brain never used before apparently!

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Starrla Hawkins's avatar

This is great, but this doesn't answer the young man's question from a quantum mechanics standpoint. I think there's an argument to consider here, separate from the matter of "time".

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ARTic777's avatar

The Universal Collective

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Nathan Hayflick's avatar

Fascinating

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Joaquim Santos's avatar

Now your giving media attention to quacks? She's fake

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Rachelle Badem's avatar

I love this because it's what exactly what the Bible taught us but people are just now understanding it. The great I AM from Genesis 😀. This is all so much fun to think about. God is so Amazing.

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Brad Beers's avatar

Sabina rocks my brain!! Thank you!

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Manohar Shenoy's avatar

What I could grasp is there are infinite frames of reference and with the speed of light being finite, information reaches different frames of reference at different times. However there is only one event.

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Bossier's avatar

I love insight like this. You only know what you know. It all starts with assumption

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