{"id":168011,"date":"2023-07-21T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife-a-theoretical-physicist-explains"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:29:13","slug":"does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife-a-theoretical-physicist-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife-a-theoretical-physicist-explains","title":{"rendered":"Does Einstein\u2019s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-einsteins-theory-of-special-relativity-suggest-that-there-is-an-afterlife-a-theoretical-physicist-explains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s talk about the physics of dead grandmothers.\u201d Thus does theoretical physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabine_Hossenfelder\">Sabine Hossenfelder<\/a> start off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ePu81ssU4M\">the Big Think video above<\/a>, which soon gets into Einstein\u2019s theory of special relativity. The question of how Hossenfelder manages to connect the former to the latter should raise in anyone curiosity enough to give these ten minutes a watch, but she also addresses a certain common category of misconception. It all began, she says, when a young man posed to her the following question: \u201cA shaman told me that my grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Is this right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ePu81ssU4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Upon reflection, Hossenfelder arrived at the conclusion that \u201cit\u2019s not entirely wrong.\u201d For decades now, \u201cquantum mechanics\u201d 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\u2019s not the applicable area of physics. \u201cIt\u2019s actually got something to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/05\/einsteins-theory-of-relativity-explained-in-one-of-the-earliest-science-films-ever-made-1923.html\">Einstein\u2019s theory of special relativity<\/a>,\u201d she says. With that particular achievement, Einstein changed the way we think about space and time, proving that \u201ceverything 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?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s talk about the physics of dead grandmothers.\u201d Thus does theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder start off the Big Think video above, which soon gets into Einstein\u2019s theory of special relativity. The question of how Hossenfelder manages to connect the former to the latter should raise in anyone curiosity enough to give these ten minutes a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}