Life after death

1) I state that it is possible to disprove the non-physical because everything in the Universe is physical. If you look at e=mc2 the equation relates energy to mass. Since the 4% of the Universe that is made up of matter has mass, energy from electromagnetism to radiation is in fact concealed within the mass of objects, that is within atoms themselves. Furthermore, because the standard model of particle physics describes particles that make up forces in nature such as gravity and the strong nuclear force with bosons, energy itself can be quantified and explained through rigorous mathematics. If the other two things that are not made of matter (anti-matter and dark matter) are still forms of energy, what is the soul and the non-physical made of? If you look, talking about the non-physical would imply going beyond everything that exists in the Universe and that is nothing but speculation. Additionally, because we are talking about life after death, we humans are made up of atoms and if our energy, from the electric sparks in our brains to the chemical binding of molecules in our cells, is composed of electrons and quarks, what is the soul made of if it's a non-physical thing? How can we humans made up of atoms, have something that goes beyond the elements of the Universe, something that is not described in the standard model? If everything from heat to galaxies are made of the same baryons and leptons, what is the soul made of? If there is a life after death and the soul is not made of matter or energy, how can it interact with time and space if they themselves exist due to complex quantum fluctuations? 2) You are wrong about dark matter. When Einstein developed the cosmological constant, he called it the greatest blunder of his life because he wanted a force that would counter-balance gravity and with recent astronomical observations, scientists have determined that dark matter is a PHYSICAL FORCE. It's physical, because it not only keeps galaxies from taring themselves apart but it also EXPANDS the universe. When something is expanded, it is a direct alteration of its volume, therefore it is a physical process. The Universe a physical system, is expanding because of dark matter and the fact that Dark matter MOVES galaxies away from each other, shows that dark matter is indeed a physical thing. 3) Again you are misinterpreting what dark matter is. For example, gravity may appear on the surface to be a disembodied and even non-physical force. Why? Because you can't see it nor taste it and while in Newtonian physics it was often thought that gravity was the type of invisible, non-physical force of which you speak when you talk about dark matter, Einstein came along in 1915 and showed through General relativity that gravity is in fact the curvature of SPACE therefore, while its invisible and odourless it is a physical phenomenon. Similarly, since dark matter does the opposite of gravity, instead of attracting objects it repels them, Dark matter must be a consequence of the geometry of space. This is shown in multiple theories in cosmology, just read Physics reviews or any other scientific magazine and you will find out what the properties of dark matter are. I can tell you what dark matter is, no problem. Dark matter is the FORCE that is causing the expansion of the Universe. If dark matter were non-physical as you say, how could it interact with space and with quanta? Look at gravity. Gravity attracts and it is produced when space is curved. Dark matter repels so of course, it must be produced not when space is curved but when space is stretched. If space is stretched, this necessarily involves a physical mechanism which means your argument is invalid and your understanding of dark matter is wrong. You then speak about the "dead" camera but in the end, what the camera records must be seen by a human, otherwise how do we know it recorded anything to begin with? This is a classical case of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which stresses the need of a conscious observer to collapse the wave function of particles at a quantum level. https://science.nasa.gov... 4) What you say proves nothing, you are in fact proving my point. You are basically equating the brain of an embryo with the rotten brain of a dead person and although that is completely wrong and a rather arbitrary thing to do because the brain of an embryo DOES indeed have neuronal connections and is perceiving reality to some degree, regardless, it goes to show that a dead brain cannot perceive reality and since consciousness depends on the physical anatomy of the brain (lobotomy shows that if you extract the frontal lobes of someone, they will lose their capacity to feel any emotion) you are accepting that without the brain, consciousness has no way: First of perceiving reality, because reality is physical even energy is formed of quanta and bosons and second, it has no way of thinking, feeling or remembering. I will post this questions and then complete my answer to your intervention on the next round because I'm kind of running out of space here: 1) Consider for a moment, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it says that you can never know the position nor the speed of an electron with absolute certainty. Even with this ghostly nature, electrons are still affected by physical laws such as gravity or dark matter, by magnetism and other forces. Why? because despite of their elusive nature with allows them to become waves of infinite probability, they are PHYSICAL. If electrons can entangle with each other and transmit information at a speed far greater than that of light, if they can teleport and be at two places at the same time and yet they are physical, how would you describe the soul then as being non-physical? 2) When you perceive reality as a conscious being, at the fundamental level according to Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics, the existence of reality depends on the interaction between consciousness and a wave function. This interaction is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that is really just the interaction between the atoms that form consciousness understood as the capacity of the brain to carry out is functions that allow us to be aware of our surroundings, and the atoms of other objects. If the collapse of the wave function is done through the mingling of the atoms of our senses with the photons of light for example, how can consciousness be something non-physical if the scientifically hypothesised way by which it interacts with reality is through the laws of quantum mechanics, a theory to describe the physical Universe? 3) If there is indeed an afterlife, how would you go about existing in space which is largely composed of virtual particles, if you are a non-physical being? If there is a life after death, how can something exist if there is no time? The main feature of time which allows for entropy to change the states of matter, from A to be, would be impossible in a reality without time because you continuously state that a life after death would have to be nonphysical. As was shown by Einstein in 1905 when he developed the theory of special relativity, time is a physical thing that is affected by the velocity and the mass of an object. The faster an object moves, the slower time flows thereby the expression t=t'/1-v/c With that in mind, if you speak of something non-physical, you would be talking about something outside the boundaries of time and as we all know, in the absence of time, the basic transformations of matter become meaningless, impossible because everything would be frozen in the same state without changing. This would be eternity I suppose. Seeing that time is such a physical thing that can be affected by the mass of objects, (that's why time in Jupiter is different to the time perceived on earth because of the fact that the mass of Jupiter actually slows down timehttps://en.wikipedia.org... ) how would you describe this non-physical essence you speak of in the absence of time? You conclude by saying that consciousness is caused by intelligent action but how about the consciousness of a bacteria? Your definition of consciousness is very flawed. Consciousness is the capacity to be aware of the elements of reality through sensorial perception and at a more complicated, deeper way, this means collapsing the wave function of objects as it is shown in Schrondringer's paradox in which the act of observation determines the state of reality, in this case, if a cat is dead or alive.