Dr. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor says there's no afterlife!

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#1 | Dr. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor says there's no afterlife! datum

Tue May 08, 2018 4:19 pm

Science may have bestowed us with gifts of medicines, air travel and the internet - but it is also the bearer of bad news.

One scientist thinks we should accept that there is no afterlife and move on with our lives on this earthly plane.

Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, said according to the Express:

The laws of physics underlying every day life are completely understood.

Dr Carroll explained that for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be entirely separated from our physical body.

But instead of an ever-lasting soul, consciousness appears to essentially composed of a series of atoms and electrons.

Dr Carroll added:

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.

It is not like scientists haven't tested for an afterlife either.

Dr Carroll points to The Quantum Field Theory (QFT).

Simply put, QFT dictates that there is one field in the universe for each type of particle - one for all the photons, another for electrons, and every other type of particle.

If there was some sort of afterlife, quantum tests would reveal 'spirit particles' and 'spirit forces'. Spoiler: they have not.

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Well, finally, the definitive word from a scientist. I guess that's 'end of story' as they say?

Here for years I've believed Jesus' claim and teaching that there was one. But wait ....didn't he prove it already?

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#2 | RE: Dr. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor says there's no afterlife! datum

Tue May 08, 2018 7:37 pm

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"In 1895, as president of the Royal Society, [Lord] Kelvin is quoted as saying, "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,"[32] proven false a mere eight years later with the flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright's Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk in 1903. In 1897, he predicted that "Radio has no future;" [33] while the popularity of radio did not appear in his lifetime (it was not until the 1920s and 30s that it attained any degree of popularity), the statement was nevertheless proven false.

I am not picking on Lord Kelvin. He was a brilliant man who contributed much to science. I cite his now infamous quote on air travel only to show even the best of scientists are capable of error and mistaken prophecies. That includes this fellow Carroll.

One of the major obstacles to such pronouncements as his is the fact we humans somehow are capable of regarding ourselves, our own acts and especially our thoughts, independently within ourselves. No one has ever been able to explain what causes that detached mode of contemplation is. nor how it operates. Oh, yes, there have been attempts to do so, mostly unproven mechanistic explanations, but none is wholly satisfactory. When this fellow Carroll is able to describe just what is "consciousness", then he may pontificate on whether it survives mortal death or not.

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#3 | RE: Dr. Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor says there's no afterlife! datum

Tue May 08, 2018 9:59 pm

Science really has no business making statements about what they do not know. Science needs to stick with things it can measure and stop postulating that because they cannot find it and measure it, that proves something doesn't exist. That's a fake use of science.

Can science tell if you are loved by your mother? Providing an answer to such a question is outside of science's purview.