A well respected physicist has claimed that life after death is impossible, claiming that humanity has to abandon all fanciful beliefs and focus on what the laws of the universe dictate.
Sean Carroll is a cosmologist and physics professor an Institute of Technology in California who's been speaking to Scientific American.
He says for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely separated from our physical body – which it's not.
Instead, he says, consciousness at the very basic level is a series of atoms and electrons which essentially give us our mind.
“Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die", he said.
“Believing in life after death, to put it mildly, requires physics beyond the Standard Model."
“Most importantly, we need some way for that ‘new physics’ to interact with the atoms that we do have."
“Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of ‘spirit particles’ and ‘spirit forces’ that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments.”
He argues that once this is accepted by all scientists they can truly begin to understand how the human mind operated.
