The history of the universe in current cosmology, conclusions about how the Earth must have been created, the fossil record indicating the evolution of life on Earth, and the apparent need for a singularity point from which the universe expanded, all seem to indicate the universe, the Earth, and we are just accidents in time, created by the mindless laws of physics. That isn’t true.
When we look at the apparent history of the universe, we see causes and effects. The fossil record seems to indicate an evolution of life on Earth.
The evidence of expansion of the universe Edwin Hubble discovered in the red shift of distant galaxies seems to show the universe is expanding. Lemaitre’s 1927 article posited that this expansion shows the universe must have started very small and is continuing to grow.
But does that mean everything that exists, including whether life evolved by accident, has gone through our experience of time – sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset – through eons of time? There are three reasons not to accept this view of the evolution of our world.
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Reason 1: Communication from people living in the life after this life shows that realms such as our universe exist as stages on which people such as us have experiences.
We know from people now living in the life after this life that all that exists is just scenery for the play. It comes to us as experiences with no world outside of us that would exist if people weren’t in it.
The next realm we enter is one of untold millions of realms. That realm did not evolve. It simply is. Our world has causes and effects to suggest to us that the world exists because of identifiable causes. We have the Sun that causes light and warmth. We eat to sustain our bodies.
Bodies die from identifiable causes. For every event, there is a sequence of causes. However, in the next life, there is ambient light and warmth with no cause.
People don’t need to eat; the body doesn’t need sustenance to remain viable. There is no death of the body, but people may transition to not needing a body to continue to live. Things exist without causes.
Knowing that causes and effects are important for Earth experiences, we can assume that what we see as evidence of evolution of the universe and us as a species is built into the scenery.
It doesn’t mean there has been a past for 13.8 billion years of a universe, sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset. The evidence just provides an explanation in causes and effects for the Earth stage on which we are now actors.
Reason 2: Findings from quantum mechanics indicate that what we experience as the world doesn't collapse into reality until it is observed.
The world needs us as conscious observers for us to have experiences. The double-slit experiment demonstrates that we experience reality when we observe it.
When we are not observing it, our world is only probabilities that things might exist if we were to observe them. In other words, our world comes into being when we as conscious entities explore it.
Thus, everything we believe has existed over time is only experiences we have of it at this moment that we then extend into believing there was a vast past that occurred sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset. All indications of a past history are only part of the scenery.
Reason 3: Schrödinger's cat illustrates that a history is created at the time the wave function collapses into reality.
Erwin Shrödinger‘s cat thought experiment indicates that a history for what we experience now would be created at the time we have the experiences.
Shrödinger couldn’t accept the assertion by the pioneers in quantum mechanics that things don’t come into existence until they are observed or measured.
Until they are observed or measured, quantum mechanics states that they are in “superposition” which means all possible states at one time. They are potentials only; they don’t “exist.”
Shrödinger created a thought experiment to show how absurd that is. Imagine a cat is in a sealed box. In the box is a flask of poison, a radioactive source, and a Geiger counter. The radioactive source could have an atom decay and fly off of it at any time, or have no decay and no atom fly off for a long time.
If the Geiger counter detects a single atom decaying from the radioactive source, the flask is shattered and the poison kills the cat. The cat has now been in the box for some time.
Whether the cat is alive or dead will only be determined when someone opens the box and observes the cat. Until that time, the cat is in a state of potential aliveness and deadness, but is neither alive nor dead.
When the box is opened, observing the car collapses the choice: the cat is dead or alive. Reality doesn’t exist for the cat’s state until the cat is observed.
However, at that moment when observing the cat creates the reality of the cat’s state of being, a whole history of the cat’s being dead or alive is created. If the cat is alive, the sight experiences of being alive will appear: the food bowl is empty, there are excrements, there are scratches on the sides of the box.
If the cat died quickly, the sight experiences of a quick death will appear: food bowl has food in it, there are no scratches on the sides of the box, and there are no excrements. Did either set of historical events “happen” before the box was opened? “Happen” is a slippery concept.
Nothing “happened” as we think of it. All we know is the experience of seeing the cat alive or dead in the box and the history experiences that accompany a cat’s dying quickly or the experiences of a cat’s being in the box for a while come into existence the moment the cat’s status is observed.
We did not experience the dinosaurs, Neanderthals, or the big bang. The evidence of their being came to us when we looked at dinosaur and Neanderthal bones and carried the universe through what we believe logically must be the beginning of an expansion in a singularity.
Reality comes into being when we observe it. The history of that reality also comes into being. The fossil record and reasoning behind the suggestion the universe began as a singularity are only part of the scenery that collapses into being when we experience it.
Conclusion
The evidence we have of a history of the universe, our solar system, and humanity is just part of the scenery that exists to give us the stage on which we learn lessons, grow in love and compassion, and enjoy life. The reality we experience and its history are accessed when we experience the world. Neither exists apart from us as a universe that would be here even if no one was here to experience it.
FAQs
What is the significance of the communication from people living in the afterlife in the context of understanding the evolution of the universe and life on Earth?
The communication from individuals in the afterlife suggests that our current understanding of the universe’s evolution and the history of life on Earth might be limited. It implies that there are realms beyond our current perception where existence is not bound by the same laws or principles we observe in our universe. This challenges the notion that everything, including the universe and life on Earth, is a product of mindless physical laws.
How do findings from quantum mechanics, such as the double-slit experiment and Schrödinger’s cat, challenge traditional notions of reality and the passage of time in relation to the universe’s history?
Findings from quantum mechanics indicate that reality is intricately linked to observation. The double-slit experiment demonstrates that particles behave differently when observed, suggesting that reality is constructed through observation. Schrödinger’s cat illustrates how reality exists in a state of superposition until observed, challenging the traditional linear concept of time. These findings imply that the universe’s history and reality itself are not fixed entities but rather contingent upon observation and consciousness.
Can you elaborate on how the concept of reality being dependent on observation affects our understanding of the fossil record, the expansion of the universe, and the singularity point from which it began?
The concept of reality dependent on observation suggests that our understanding of phenomena like the fossil record, the expansion of the universe, and the singularity point is subjective and contingent upon conscious observation. It implies that these phenomena do not exist independently of observation but rather come into being when observed. Therefore, our interpretation of the fossil record, cosmic expansion, and the singularity point may be limited by our perspective as conscious observers.
How does the perspective presented reconcile the apparent continuity of the universe’s history, as evidenced by phenomena like the fossil record and the expansion of the cosmos, with the assertion that reality and its history only come into being when observed?
The perspective reconciles the continuity of the universe’s history with the notion that reality arises from observation by suggesting that what we perceive as continuity is merely a construction of our observation. The apparent continuity of the universe’s history, as seen in phenomena like the fossil record and cosmic expansion, is part of the scenery that comes into being when observed. Therefore, while these phenomena may seem to indicate a linear history, they are, in fact, contingent upon observation and do not exist independently of it.
