Author: Sean Carroll
Sean M. Carroll is a senior research associate at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Dutton, 2010). This article first appeared as a blog post on the Discover and Scientific American blogs.
Physics and the Immortality of the Soul
The topic of life after death raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression and haunted houses, but there is a large number of people in the world who believe in some form of persistence of the individual soul after life ends. Clearly, whether humans possess immortal souls is an important question, one of the most important …