Does Death Exist?

New Theory Says No

Robert Lanza, MD
C HI EF S CI EN TI F IC O FF IC ER O F ADVA NCE D CE LL TE CH NO LO GY

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body,
and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a
range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the many-worlds
interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the multiverse). A new
scientific theory called biocentrism refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that
could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible
universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to selfdestruct, the alive feeling the Who am I?- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy
doesnt go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor
destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?
Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journalScience showing that scientists could retroactively change
something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the
experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined
what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the
outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas
of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen.
Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, its still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection.
According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air if you take
everything away, whats left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You cant see anything through the bone that
surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space
and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.
Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, Now Besso (an old friend) has
departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like usknow that the distinction
between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Immortality doesnt mean a perpetual existence
in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.
This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family
members. Christines husband Ed started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the
provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass
through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time.