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A friend of ours and I were discussing your blog. Several thoughts about life after death were raised. First, the idea that physical death can be separate from spiritual death (hindu). Thus, "death" is generally used as short hand for physical death. Second, that you can die and then be resurrected in heaven (christian). Thus, you die and are "brought back" via the power of a creator. Both of these get past the apparent contradiction in terms.

In other news, did you hear about the discovery regarding the shape of atomic nucleolus and how it maybe means there is no going back in time. http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-discovered-a-new-nucleus-shape-and-it-could-ruin-our-hopes-of-time-travel

Honestly, I don't grok it, like I don't grok most of quantum mechanics, but I thought maybe you would.

That is an interesting article. I don't think it necessarily invalidates

I probably should have googled my theory before I wrote this post, unsurprisingly it isn't a new theory:

In Philosophy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

In Physics it is usually understood as "Block Universe", and the physics community is very split on it (this article is from yesterday):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160719-time-and-cosmology/

I think my main point still stands if time has a direction. In fact, quantum states of unknown collapsing via observation *requires* a directional (before and after) time "wave".

And it would make sense you could not go back in time, no more than you could swim in a pool that has frozen over.

Although if I had read all that stuff to being with, I probably would have written a more focused blog post, arguing that "presentist" hypothesis is wrong.

My alternative hypothesis is probably weak and wrong in many ways, while all I'm really hoping to do is to point out what most physics and philosophers pretty much agree on, is that the "presentist" view of the world is likely not correct.

Although they disagree about what should replace it.