Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think. One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). A new scientific theory – called biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling – the ‘Who am I?’- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other? Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen. Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, it’s still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection. According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together. Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, “Now Besso” (an old friend) “has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether. This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family members. Christine’s husband – Ed – started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time. Christine had had a hard life. She had finally found a man that she loved very much. My younger sister couldn’t make it to her wedding because she had a card game that had been scheduled for several weeks. My mother also couldn’t make the wedding due to an important engagement she had at the Elks Club. The wedding was one of the most important days in Christine’s life. Since no one else from our side of the family showed, Christine asked me to walk her down the aisle to give her away. Soon after the wedding, Christine and Ed were driving to the dream house they had just bought when their car hit a patch of black ice. She was thrown from the car and landed in a banking of snow. “Ed,” she said “I can’t feel my leg.” She never knew that her liver had been ripped in half and blood was rushing into her peritoneum. After the death of his son, Emerson wrote “Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.” Whether it’s flipping the switch for the Science experiment, or turning the driving wheel ever so slightly this way or that way on black-ice, it’s the 20-watts of energy that will experience the result. In some cases the car will swerve off the road, but in other cases the car will continue on its way to my sister’s dream house. Christine had recently lost 100 pounds, and Ed had bought her a surprise pair of diamond earrings. It’s going to be hard to wait, but I know Christine is going to look fabulous in them the next time I see her. “Biocentrism” (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza’s theory of everything. View article on Huffington Post This Blogger’s Book from Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza, Bob Berman Robert Lanza on Huffington Post The Big Questions Why Does Life Exist? Why Are You Here? A New Theory May Hold the Missing Piece Who Are We? Experiments Suggest You’re Not Who You Think Time and Death Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’ What Happens When You Die? Evidence Suggests Time Simply Reboots Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn’t Set in Stone Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time Do You Only Live Once? Experiments Suggest Life Not One–Time Deal Five Reasons You Won’t Die Why You Will Always Exist God Judgement Day is Coming. Science Suggests Justice is Inescapable. Does the Soul Exist? Evidence Says ‘Yes’ The Universe Anything Beyond the Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny Miscellaneous Are We Part of a Single Living Organism? Have Aliens Left The Universe? Theory Predicts We’ll Follow Are Dreams An Extension Of Physical Reality? Lanza Featured in Fortune Magazine “…he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research” “Lanza published a paper in The Lancet earlier this year detailing the results of early clinical trials involving two women suffering from macular degeneration. A UCLA ophthalmologist injected each woman with 50,000 retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and according to the paper, both claim to have better vision as a result. They’re not 20/20. But after a single injection one now walks the mall alone, uses her computer, and can pour a cup of coffee. The other sees colors and can read five letters on the eye chart. If Lanza is remembered one day as the man who saved millions from blindness, his story will provide a ready-made biopic for Ben Affleck. Born in the hardscrabble town of Roxbury and raised by a professional gambler, he escaped the economic underclass through intelligence and imagination. At 13, he altered the DNA of a chicken to make it change color; the experiment was published in Nature. His sisters never graduated from high school. He received an MD from Penn and a Fulbright scholarship, and has collaborated with giants, including B.F. Skinner and Jonas Salk. He was the first ever to clone an endangered species, and now he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research.” Lanza Voted Top 4 “Most Influential People on Stem Cells” Lanza featured in the 2013 “TOP 50 Global Stem Cell Influencers.” It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes. The 50 personalities were picked based on their career achievements whether this was groundbreaking discovery and research, innovation, or lifetime dedication. Lanza was among the top four on the list, alongside James Thomson and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka. Previous News Dr. Robert Lanza Featured on ABC’s Barbara Walters Special Robert Lanza featured on “Live to be 150, Can You Do It?”. by ABC News DISCOVER Interview: Robert Lanza Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach. Discover Magazine Biocentrism / Robert Lanza’s Theory of Everything BIOCENTRISM How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe “Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom. Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it makes you think.” – Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it. Discover Magazine Lanza’s Research Featured on the Cover of U.S. News & World Report Lanza’s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells. U.S. News & World Report Lanza’s Team Clones First Endangered Species Endangered Species Cloned Newsweek Lanza Receives “Rave Award” for Medicine Robert Lanza Receives Award for Eye-Opening Work on Embryonic Stem Cells Wired Magazine Robert Lanza Featured in People Magazine Send in the Clones. Biologist Robert Lanza has a plan to help endangered species fight extinction. People Magazine Lanza’s Research Featured on Front Page of New York Times Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. New York Times Robert Lanza Featured on Front Page of New York Times Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo. Technique Could Shift Debate on Humans. New York Times A New Theory of the Universe A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation. The American Scholar Featured on the Cover of Wired Magazine Seven Days of Creation. The inside story of a human cloning experiment. Wired Magazine U.S. News & World Report Cover Story “…his mentors described him [Lanza] as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.” “Robert Lanza is the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting. Growing up underprivileged in Stoughton, Mass., south of Boston, the young preteen caught the attention of Harvard Medical School researchers when he showed up on the university steps having successfully altered the genetics of chickens in his basement. Over the next decade, he was to be “discovered” and taken under the wing of scientific giants such as psychologist B. F. Skinner, immunologist Jonas Salk, and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. His mentors described him as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
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