The article you cite hinges its argument on the multiverse hypothesis, which has no scientific basis. It’s simply a philosophical position atheists use to deny that quantum mechanical choices are made
Don’t forget, this IS a Catholic asking this question. A sad, scared, confused one, but I wouldn’t even bring it up if I didn’t think there might be some validity to it as Christians.
Maybe it is more philosophy than actual proven science (since, as yet, we would have no way to probe into other dimensions), but it does provide a solution to some hypotheses such as “Schrodinger’s cat” (has the radioactive isotope decayed? Is the cat dead or alive? Depending on which plane we’re on, it could be either).
As I see it, it doesn’t remove the possibility that we choose certain things so much as there are multiple versions of us – each with different potentials to get to Heaven. The “me” who chooses not to type this reply is not at all the same “me” who does. (This might also mean we just might be able to see our loved ones in Heaven – though they might not exactly be the ones we knew in our lifetimes.)
In fact, it wouldn’t be past me to believe that Heaven and Hell are two parallel universes themselves– one absolute perfection and the other absolute imperfection. And one way or another, our souls will end up on one of those two planes. (Again, though, we can’t get there ourselves, as heaven and hell are not unlike infinity and negative infinity – understandable, but impossible to reach [ourselves] no matter how far we go.)
Friend, don’t get caught up in such things. Attempting to discover the biomechanics and physics of the soul is to miss the point: the soul is spirit, pure and simple. When we die, our souls are separated from our bodies and move into eternity. That is where heaven and hell lie; whether that ALSO means they lie in our universe (or elsewhere) is irrelevant, because they are not knowable to us in this life.
Hell is eternal separation from God and suffering; heaven is eternal union with God. In both places, after the final judgement, we will be reunited with our bodies (the resurrection of the dead). This “20 watts” nonsense is an attempt to get around the need for a God.
Mate, you’re forgetting what science was originally MADE for. Science was made by man to try and understand God more deeply, not to explain Him away. And that’s all I’m trying to do here. Trying to understand how our souls work.
That’s all science can do – explain HOW things work, not WHY they work. Anyone who assumes there is no reason for this is full of it.
As other posters have pointed out, this “multiverse theory” (which isn’t a scientific theory, as theories require strong evidence) is more akin to groundless speculation along the lines of, “Gee, what if…?”
OK, yes, sorry. It is a hypothesis, not a theory. Please remind me if I make that mistake again.
It’s not completely groundless. It tries to answer questions about what happens when we aren’t looking at things. It’s a counter to Bohr’s hypothesis – the Copenhagen interpretation – in which, unless observations are made on something in the quantum world (or the unseen world), any potential number of things
are happening (which results in a paradox). With the parallel worlds interpretation, we avoid this paradox by saying that it is quite possible that any of those things could be happening, but depending on which timeline you are on, only one is happening, and that is the only one you can see in that time, while another “you” sees something different.
The only things that are given across all planes is that God exists and can make whatever He wants (which is what He did in all universes including Heaven and Hell).
