On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:35:51 AM UTC-4, israel sadovnik wrote:

July 20th, 2023. Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains
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It all began, she [Sabine Hossenfelder] says, when a young man posed to her the following question: “A shaman told me that my grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Is this right?”
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Upon reflection, Hossenfelder arrived at the conclusion that “it’s not entirely wrong.” For decades now, “quantum mechanics” has been hauled out over and over again to provide vague support to a range of beliefs all along the spectrum of

plausibility. But in the dead-grandmother case, at least, it’s not the applicable area of physics. “It’s actually got something to do with Einstein’s theory of special relativity,” she says. With that particular achievement, Einstein changed
the way we think about space and time, proving that “everything that you experience, everything that you see, you see as it was a tiny, little amount of time in the past. So how do you know that anything exists right now?”

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“the present moment has no fundamental significance”; in the resulting “block universe,” past, present, and future coexist simultaneously, and no information is ever destroyed, just continually rearranged.
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To answer the title question...No, I don't think special relativity suggests that there is an afterlife. If you conceive of space-time as a "block universe," then the parts of it that are "after" your death are regions in four-dimensional space, and in
those "after" regions you are not alive.

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On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:50:51 AM UTC-4, broger...@gmail.com wrote:

On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:35:51 AM UTC-4, israel sadovnik wrote:

July 20th, 2023. Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains
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It all began, she [Sabine Hossenfelder] says, when a young man posed to her the following question: “A shaman told me that my grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Is this right?”
#
Upon reflection, Hossenfelder arrived at the conclusion that “it’s not entirely wrong.” For decades now, “quantum mechanics” has been hauled out over and over again to provide vague support to a range of beliefs all along the spectrum of

plausibility. But in the dead-grandmother case, at least, it’s not the applicable area of physics. “It’s actually got something to do with Einstein’s theory of special relativity,” she says. With that particular achievement, Einstein changed
the way we think about space and time, proving that “everything that you experience, everything that you see, you see as it was a tiny, little amount of time in the past. So how do you know that anything exists right now?”

#
“the present moment has no fundamental significance”; in the resulting “block universe,” past, present, and future coexist simultaneously, and no information is ever destroyed, just continually rearranged.
------- https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife.html

To answer the title question...No, I don't think special relativity suggests that there is an afterlife. If you conceive of space-time as a "block universe,"
then the parts of it that are "after" your death are regions in four-dimensional
space, and in those "after" regions you are not alive.

Indeed: keyword "after". Beyond that, I've always liked block-time.
From any "now", it clearly works for the past.

There is the option of a fractally splitting creation of futures, perhaps along
all possible trajectories, though 'all possible' leaves me uneasy, not that the universe(s) likely care.

Physics becomes a set of rules for similarity between time-slice
T(i) and T(i+delta_t), inclusive of some propensity to conformity to probability distributions. We're NPCs in some god's game of blocks
encoded with delusions of autonomy.

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On Tuesday, 25 July 2023 at 15:45:52 UTC+3, Lawyer Daggett wrote:

On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:50:51 AM UTC-4, broger...@gmail.com wrote:

On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:35:51 AM UTC-4, israel sadovnik wrote:

July 20th, 2023. Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains
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It all began, she [Sabine Hossenfelder] says, when a young man posed to her the following question: “A shaman told me that my grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Is this right?”
#
Upon reflection, Hossenfelder arrived at the conclusion that “it’s not entirely wrong.” For decades now, “quantum mechanics” has been hauled out over and over again to provide vague support to a range of beliefs all along the spectrum of

plausibility. But in the dead-grandmother case, at least, it’s not the applicable area of physics. “It’s actually got something to do with Einstein’s theory of special relativity,” she says. With that particular achievement, Einstein changed
the way we think about space and time, proving that “everything that you experience, everything that you see, you see as it was a tiny, little amount of time in the past. So how do you know that anything exists right now?”

#
“the present moment has no fundamental significance”; in the resulting “block universe,” past, present, and future coexist simultaneously, and no information is ever destroyed, just continually rearranged.
------- https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife.html

To answer the title question...No, I don't think special relativity suggests
that there is an afterlife. If you conceive of space-time as a "block universe,"
then the parts of it that are "after" your death are regions in four-dimensional
space, and in those "after" regions you are not alive.

Indeed: keyword "after". Beyond that, I've always liked block-time.
From any "now", it clearly works for the past.

There is the option of a fractally splitting creation of futures, perhaps along
all possible trajectories, though 'all possible' leaves me uneasy, not that the
universe(s) likely care.

Physics becomes a set of rules for similarity between time-slice
T(i) and T(i+delta_t), inclusive of some propensity to conformity to probability distributions. We're NPCs in some god's game of blocks
encoded with delusions of autonomy.

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The block-time between time-slice T(i) and T(i+delta_t),
when the information is never destroyed, just continually rearranged.
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