Are the deceased still with us? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder responds #shorts

Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist, author, and creator of "Science Without the Gobbledygook". She currently works at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Germany.

[topor]

Old physicists don’t die, they just become, for all practical purposes, impossible to retrieve.

[mr.somebody]

You left out the disassembly part about information. We get disassembled, broken back down into our simplest forms and bits. It's like looking at a single pebble on a beach and realizing that it was once a mountain. Also, since humans are 90% made up of other microorganisms, it's not only a person that has deceased, but an entire system of life.

[ivocanevo]

Thank you, Dr. Hossenfelder. It's so reassuring that all I need to connect with the deceased is to read the entire universe's wave function and just play it backwards.

[TheGreatExperimentofLove]

"Honey, you're my favorite vessel of arranged information <3"

[buckanderson]

I can tell you this, the day my mom died I heard a voice, that I recognize as being the voice of God, tell me that she would die that night. She did but at the time I heard the voice tell me that she would die I broke down sobbing and then I found myself surrounded by figures moving swiftly all around me and felt hands being laid upon my shoulders that comforted me. My mom loved angels and I had asked God ahead of time to send angels to gather her when she passed and He answered. You should know that I am a Christian and so was my mother.

[lisasisneros]

I’m not any sort of a physicist, but i had the thought recently that people we’ve lost still exist in time. What if time and space are like the weft and weave in the fabric of reality, and they still live in a literal ‘place’ somewhere removed from where we are in the present. If we pull the pinpoint in time where we are up and drag it to the place in space and time they exist, like bringing two points on a piece of fabric together, it would close the gap we call the passage of time. Until we figure out how to ‘time travel’ like this, and I’m not sure we should tbh, it’s comforting to think that our loved ones still exist, just in a place we can’t get to. 😊

[marksd]

You and Brian Cox are my absolute favorite scientists. Thank you Sabine.

[BrendaCreates]

"A really good computer" is an understatement in the extreme.

[sharcodile]

And technically the randomized rearranging of atoms on that small of a scale, and if the universe is truly timeless, then you will live an infinite amount of times just by random chance of atoms being arranged in a way that forms a thinking brain that images a world around it

[mr.somebody]

If the rules can be applied backwards, then in theory, I should be able to find out what I was before I was born. I think the problem is that, just as we are made up of many things, both before we are born and after we die we become many things again. It is only at this point in time and space that we are what we are.

[gabiausten]

I love me some Sabine..man, this woman is precious!

[varyolla]

So long as you remember them = they are never really

The "substance" of what they were however has returned to the Universe. It is how they interacted with that Universe in the form of lives they touched that goes forward as noted via being remembered.

[grantjones]

Information cannot be destroyed; it just becomes impossible to retrieve”! Isn’t this more philosophy than physics?

[missdee]

Energy doesn't die it just transforms

[Trace]

My parents were wonderful people who had their act together at a young age. I'm a pathetic loser, I find it hard to believe they can still be living through me. If they are, they must be very disappointed..Sorry mom and dad, you deserved better!

[Cyber_Nomad]

So, what she is saying is like, if a wooden cup that gets burnt, it still exists. It is just in many very small parts.

[bradleystites]

Eh lion king had a good simple answer...

"He lives in you"

[JamesSpeiser]

When someone you knew and loved had passed away many years ago and they tell you something very specific is going to happen and it happens that day it sure makes you wonder.

[JayBobJayBob]

Having studied both science and ancient yoga writings, as well as having practiced the Lifeforce techniques in the yoga practices, I can say that those things in the past can be accessed! Unfortunately, few people would take the time and sincerity necessary to do the practices to make it happen. This is an observation that comes from my years of being an advanced meditation teacher, and seeing the reluctance of people with a lazy spiritual nature.

[steverino]

Plus, since time isn't linear (but only perceived as such, by 3rd dimensional beings like us), everyone that you have perceived having passed is simultaneously still alive, as past present and future all exist at once.