When I die, will my spirit be affected by physics?

Question

What physics will be involved in my ascension into the spirit realm? Will gravity play a role?

Are his noodley appendages exempt from physics?

Emperor, of course my spirit matters!

Answer 1

I believe you will only be affected by LASERS!

Answer 2

The earlier question by the Emperor (does a spirit have matter?) does matter. If it is matter, then yes, it will be affected.
However, it could be made of WIMPs (weakly interactive, massive particles) which could be affected only by gravity and nothing else.

Some researcher (quite a few decades ago) claimed that he had actually weighed a person's spirit by noting a drop in a person's mass (to the order of one or two dozen grams -- less than one ounce) at time of death.

If that is true, then spirit does have mass and will be affected at least by gravity.

However, all of the above is based on the hypothesis that three exists such a thing as a spirit that gets to leave the body after death. The hypothesis is very difficult to test.

Answer 3

This is actually a subject of very close medical / philological scrutiny and discussion. What is the physics of consciousness?

Of course, (or so it appears,) your question makes the tongue-in-cheek assumption, (and a very very acute assumption...) that there is no "spirit-self" to act or be acted upon either during or after life. Nonetheless, the subject of human consciousness, indeed the mystery of it, is a hot topic of the moment.

Are our thoughts and mental experiences physical..? If so, how and if not what is it that allows us to know and express consciousness ? Is consciousness like a ray of light or is it like sound or is it an energy of a different type altogether ?

I know I am and you know you are... but how, exactly ? Is it a property of all mater ? Does a an insect or a tree have consciousness ? Does a spoon or a rock ?

Neat $hit.... eh? Gull-dang-it... I love science.

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Answer 4

Okay, playing along for a moment and assuming that spirits ARE real and so on...if it's real, it's made of the same stuff that every other real thing is made of, which means that yes, they are subject to the same physical laws as everything else.

That's a big IF, but I sense the question was kinda tongue-in-cheek anyway.

Answer 5

We are all made of the matter of dead things, and I personally don't feel them rolling around in my body or effecting my spirit.

Essentially the matter that makes us all up, probably was used by other creatures early in earths existence. The cells that make up my body are have a large ammount of hydrogen and oxygen in them, that were likely used in the cells of dinosaurs or fish or birds.

I don't think our 'souls' will be effected at all by physics after death. But the matter that once made up our bodies changes form and is used by other things. Its actually pretty cool if you think about it.

We are all stardust.

At the rate the human body gets rid of dead cells, there is a complete regeneration of cells within 10 years. That means the cells that make you, you right now, wont be in your body in 10 years. I don't feel bits of my soul dying off when I go to the bathroom or bleed, but they are bits of the matter that makes up me changing form.

Answer 6

Only mass is affected by gravity. A spirit or a soul is spirit, not mass, therefore can't be affected by gravity.

Answer 7

I would assume so, as both volcanoes and beer are measurable... Theoretically, then spirits must be too!

Answer 8

Everything is affected by physics. It's is more inevitable than Jesus.

Answer 9

I dunno, does a spirit have matter?

Well in that case you need a very sensitive instrument to measure the high quality female spiritual matter, otherwise you might miss something very spectacular.