I wonder if death—of anything—is even possible. Perhaps we—and everything—die all the time and reappear instantly in another dimension or universe without any disruption to life as we experience it. Initially, I was bothered by this idea when I considered that death is all around us and visible: a dead cat in the road, dead leaves, dead flowers, dead insects, and cemeteries full of bones and mouldering flesh, et al. However, I realized that dead things have sloughed off sense perception and therefore escape the illusion of time (There is no “Time” in the traditional sense; we are simply trapped by our inability to sense that everything happens at once) so what seems years and decades to us, has little meaning for dead things that have quite possibly been reconstituted in other dimensions or universes. “Reconstitution” is another idea that bothered me at first until I considered that theoretical physics posits the theory of “Entanglement,” that every sub-atomic particle—the constituents of everything in the universe—has a partner particle and can communicate with that particle “instantaneously” across vast stretches of the Universe. Einstein was also uncomfortable with this and called it “spooky action at a distance,” but he did not rule it out. What is more, String Theory posits the idea of an infinite number of dimensions (They are mathematically sure of eleven) at the sub-atomic level and the Multiverse Theory suggests that Universes are constantly appearing and disappearing in much the same way that sub-atomic particles wink in and out of existence. Put another way: Everything only has a tendency to exist. It’s as if everything is dead and alive, dead and alive—all at once. Although there is empirical evidence for Entanglement, String Theory, and the Multiverse Theory (which also explains what initiated the Big Bang) they are not complete, but I suspect they will be in short order given the exponential advancement of science. Besides, for me, these ideas are much easier to believe—given that there is evidence for these theories—than believing in a heaven or a hell for which there is no evidence whatsoever. Faith is not evidence but rather self-evidence—and, as uncomfortable as I find this, morality is just not part of the equation.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:26:11 +0000
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