I agree with most of that conceptually speaking. And perhaps the ultimate existential question that someday we all know the answer. It's interesting that most religions and even ancient mystic traditions address this issue. Even non religious but spiritual oral traditions like of Aboriginal Australians, who might be the oldest continuous human culture, speak of dream worlds and states of existence, from where we came, and where we are headed. Even with our simple understanding of physics if there is conservation of energy and matter, and consciousness exists, then isn't there also a conservation of consciousness? That's really the crux of the issue, no? Especially as it relates to our feeble grey matter! :-)
Some claim at the quantum level time doesn't exist but I'm guessing it's more like it doesn't exist in the normal linear way we think of it. And this is not a cool science trick that we can easily understand with Einstein's theories of relativity. That said, imo, gravity is the most misunderstood fundamental force in physics, and that ignorance is an impediment to the next big leap forward in physics.
The Large Hadron Collider is an expensive and fascinating engineering project. My freshman roommate in college was a physics nerd and one of his first jobs was working there, although unsure if he still does. It also speaks to how in several hundred years most physics experiments are still based on collision tests... it's just that the technology is way better! haha. The first observation of gravitation waves a decade ago was perhaps the biggest news in physics in decades, imo.
This is old but if you want to get into the head and belly scratching stuff you might enjoy this, hahaha...
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