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Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
Science does not deal with the supernatural, only that which can be observed and measured.
Originally posted by Vipassana
From my understanding this is pretty simple physics. The energy that we are simply transitions into different energy, and disperses into the universe. Insects and animals eat it, plants take it and grow, and a lot of it is lost into the earth. You are correct that it doesn't die though, the thing is that it was never alive in the first place.
Originally posted by disgustedbyhumanity
Isn't it possible that we die because we have exhausted the last of our energy?
Or as I believe, when we die our energy gets released into nature as a whole?
EMC2 is flawed in my opinion I beleieve there are ways to get more energy out of something than is put in. Imagine a steep pinnacle. Over time it is eroded away,and eventually you have a huge boulder now only connected by a thread to the formation. A raindrop falls, breaks it loose and it rolls downhill eventually destroying several homes. So a little raindrop releases energy to the equivelant of a bunch of dynamite. Where did all the energy come from? .
Originally posted by polomontana
Now that I have shown that A energy can't die and B we are not something different than energy, we must conclude that the laws of physics shows that your energy survives death because it can't die.
Now, can this energy contain information about you? The answer is yes. The zero point energy associated with your body is connected to the zero point field. This zero point field is shown to us through the uncertainty principle. The lowest allowable energy level in a harmonic oscillator is not zero but hw/2. So if you have a pendulum that's swinging it will eventually come to rest but not so with a quantum harmonic oscillator. So even when we are brain dead the zero point energy associated with our bodies is not dead.
Can this field process information? Of course it can and we are trying to duplicate it with quantum computers.
There's no such thing as the supernatural. A supernatural event is labeled such because we don't fully understand it. If you were to go back 2,000 years ago and clone a sheep it would be labeled a supernatural. Life after death occurs naturally and anyone who would mention anything about the supernatural would first have to show me that the supernatural exist.
A psychic often talks about connecting to a persons energy and I have proven that energy survives death because energy can't die.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
Originally posted by polomontana
Now that I have shown that A energy can't die and B we are not something different than energy, we must conclude that the laws of physics shows that your energy survives death because it can't die.
But what you have NOT shown, again, is that your consciousness, soul, spirit, ka, or whathaveyou is anything other than information processed by your brain.
So the energy that survives death is nothing but some rapidly cooling thermal energy and chemical energy in the dead meat you have become.
Now, can this energy contain information about you? The answer is yes. The zero point energy associated with your body is connected to the zero point field. This zero point field is shown to us through the uncertainty principle. The lowest allowable energy level in a harmonic oscillator is not zero but hw/2. So if you have a pendulum that's swinging it will eventually come to rest but not so with a quantum harmonic oscillator. So even when we are brain dead the zero point energy associated with our bodies is not dead.
Why invoke zero point energy at all, other than it's the latest quantum-babble buzzword? You have lots of nuclear energy too! Every particle in your body has an energy equivalence. But like the zero point energy, it does not contain your consciousness. There isn't any soul there. It's not in the chemical bonds of your dead meat, either.
Can this field process information? Of course it can and we are trying to duplicate it with quantum computers.
I'm afraid you're wrong there. Quantum computing doesn't use spirits or kas. And the zero point field doesn't 'process information'.
I could also make your knuckle bones into some fine I Ching oracle bones, but would the results reflect your dead thoughts? Or are they nothing but pieces of hydroxyapatite?
There's no such thing as the supernatural. A supernatural event is labeled such because we don't fully understand it. If you were to go back 2,000 years ago and clone a sheep it would be labeled a supernatural. Life after death occurs naturally and anyone who would mention anything about the supernatural would first have to show me that the supernatural exist.
Isn't this the same thing you said a few posts back? I agree - life does begin with death, but it's the life of single celled creatures, followed shortly by that of flies and worms. Eventually, it will become the life of plants. This is the 'circle of life'.
A psychic often talks about connecting to a persons energy and I have proven that energy survives death because energy can't die.
A simon-pure example of using the term "energy" in a mystical sense and then trying to bamboozle it into having the aegis of physics behind it. Welcome, you have now begun to commune with the "energy" of Madame Blavatsky - soon you will be telling me about vibrations and waves along with the energy part.
Originally posted by MajorMalfunction
Polo, my friend, did you miss the part where it is revealed that Tom is a physicist?
I think his knowledge of physics will trump what can be dug up online, if one isn't trained in the field. Nothing personal.