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Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife – but don't bank on it

Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife – but don't bank on it

9 December 2020

Quantum information can never be destroyed, so some of the essence of you could live on after death – but it’s not going to help the physical you
If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

9 December 2020

It’s easy to be disheartened by the puniness of our existence – yet perhaps for the first time in human history, everything depends on decisions each one of us makes

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