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In reply to the discussion: Searching For The Science Behind Reincarnation [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)that is the universe, and there is no heaven, or hell, or anything like that. What we know in hard science is that information is not lost. Hell, Hawkins even admits that not even at the edge of black holes that happens, and lord knows that has been a discussion for decades now.
What happens after death, is actually right now being asked by actual folks with actual PhDs in advanced Physics, and a psychiatrist. A few of those are cosmologists, which if you know anything about Cosmology it makes perfect sense.
But neither you, or I, or anybody else currently alive can answer this for sure. So the idea that this man is exploring is one first posited by that idiot, (only a nobel prize winner) called Max Plank, that consciousness is another state of being. You do know he came up with that silly principle that went by his name, right?
I remember when String Theory started. Some folks, including some in the field, called it fake science, and a few other cute names. These days, those same folks are no longer that sure of those cocksure words. Oh and NPR covered it back then too, and some folks in USENET said the same thing you are saying right now.
Things on the real edge usually scare us, because by their very nature they are very strange. This is the very edge.
I admit, the concept is rife for even some strange fiction. But I prefer to keep my eyes open to at least the possibilities, and the research. Why? Life and science, (when not another religion) are just fascinating.
By the way, if any of this research is real, hell and heaven are human constructs that will have little to do with that, am afraid.