The Question of Immortality.

This was actually going to be Vampyre Myth #5 ….or 4? I’ve lost count already, but my searching found something much more interesting than my take on vampyre truths.

Vampyre Myth #5 WOULD HAVE been: All vampyres are immortal.

Now, hopefully this is a no-brainer to everyone who’s been keeping up, as you’ve realized by now that vampyres are, in effect, mortal, just like everyone else. They can not survive falling off cliffs, or being shot in the head, or whatever fictional vampires somehow survive through.

However–we’re going to go super scientific here for a second.

I found an amazing Quantum Physics theory that may prove the immortality of all conscious beings. All of them, not just vampyres. It’s super complex, but I’ll try to give you the reader’s digest version since it’s just too cool not to share.

Basically, if you accept the probability of the “many worlds interpretation” or the idea that there are parallel universes, immortality is a possibility.

Why? Because if there are as many universes as there are outcomes to any situation you encounter, any scenario where you die, there is also the same possibility that you will live. So, in essence, in at least one universe you are still living, while in another you are dead. However, since you are still living in at least one universe, you never perceive your own death–therefore, you never die. Only the people around you living in the current universe where you die can perceive your death.

As in, you could point a gun to your head and pull the trigger, and in one universe you will die of a gun-shot wound to the head. In another however, the gun will mis-fire and you will live. Your consciousness wil shift to this universe since you STILL EXIST there, and never realize that you died in the other.

So, if this theory were true, there will always be an outcome where you survive, in an infinite number of parallel universes, until either all universes cease to be, or you somehow cease to be in all of them at once. Thus–immortality.

Of course it has many more facets than this, and many other theories that lead to this one, but I found it so fascinating.

The only problem is if religion comes into play. Immortality of all conscious beings would to an extent eliminate the existence of heaven or hell, angels, spirits, etc, since all of these require the reality of death. It also removes the idea of fate or destiny, since there is nothing random or coincidental, since all outcomes to any situation are indeed happening at once. I suppose there will never be a clean way to mix science and religion.

I personally could never abandon my spirituality for a scientific theory on immortality, but still, if I put enough thought into it, it honestly does make sense on many levels.

Just another thing to think about in this crazy world of ours.

Other Articles on Quantum Immortality:

Wikipedia – Quantum Suicide and Quantum Immortality
Damn Interesting – Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Immortality
Mind Power News – Quantum Immortality: Do you live forever in a parallel universe?

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