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If you find physics interesting I think you'll like this article. Lubos Motl is one of the leading string theorists formerly of Harvard and he's an atheist. Some parts of quantum physics have nearly metaphysical implications. It's really not advocating for or against anything, he just sort of talks about how things we normally think about as supernatural really remain in the realm of possibility, maybe more so than they would have been 50 years ago. The more we learn, the stranger it gets.
"According to the usual picture of the spacetime, the life of an infalling observer has to end in the black hole interior where the existence of the singularity (a region where the curvature invariants diverge or approach the huge Planckian values) is unavoidable. However, the information carried by the infalling observer doesn't get lost at the singularity. No information is ever lost so we may imagine that there are nonlocal processes that transfer the information from the black hole interior to the exterior. And this nonlocal transfer of the information may be interpreted as a sign of a "soul travelling somewhere".
The Reference Frame: Quantum gravity and afterlife
"According to the usual picture of the spacetime, the life of an infalling observer has to end in the black hole interior where the existence of the singularity (a region where the curvature invariants diverge or approach the huge Planckian values) is unavoidable. However, the information carried by the infalling observer doesn't get lost at the singularity. No information is ever lost so we may imagine that there are nonlocal processes that transfer the information from the black hole interior to the exterior. And this nonlocal transfer of the information may be interpreted as a sign of a "soul travelling somewhere".
The Reference Frame: Quantum gravity and afterlife
