This theory has people scratching their heads and demanding more answers after learning about TikToker shared her thoughts on life after death.
Sure, there's a whole lot of different videos on TikTok, but you don’t normally expect to end up questioning absolutely everything you know about reality by the end of one.
This is what has happened to some social media users after coming across this rather out there theory regarding what happens when you die.
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Some people believe in heaven, others a different kind of afterlife but what happens after we stop living on planet Earth has both fascinated and terrified people across human history.
However, the idea of living forever and your back and hips getting even more dodgy, your memory fade further, certainly doesn't appeal either.
And the question of life and living forever is something that has led to people thinking about topics such as quantum immortality.
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In ordinary terms, it means that people never die, but in truth, it’s a lot more complicated than that.
The theory suggests that people’s consciousness never actually dies, meaning that we might have lived through countless multiple apocalypses and extinction events.
It’s enough to fuel your existential dread for months, so – with that in mind – let’s learn a bit more about it, shall we?
The theory has been explained by many people, but we’re going to focus on TikTok user @joli.artist, as she discussed the idea of quantum immortality, as well as American physicist Hugh Everett’s ‘many worlds’ theory.
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He suggested that there are countless other worlds and other realities, and when we die we simply transfer to another one of those.
In her TikTok video, Joli suggested that there’s a chance we ‘never really die’ and could have experienced the world ending on numerous occasions before.
"Whenever you die in one universe, your consciousness just gets transferred into another universe where you survive,” she said.
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In a nutshell, that is the idea here.
Of course, it’s a lot more complicated than that, involving a lot of maths and science, but we are trying to keep things short and sweet here.
Joli explained how – if there’s anything to this theory - we wouldn’t remember the previous world that we switched over to but might have some basic recollections – much like the Mandela Effect.
"So after the inevitable apocalypse occurs, you're going to wake up the next day in a new reality, and the next thing you know, you're going to find yourself on Reddit talking about 'since when did Pizza Hut have two Ts?” she explained.
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Anyway, the very idea of this has some people’s heads in a spin.
"BYE NOT TODAY," said one comment.
"Ok, I’m actually kind of freaking out right now coz I’m not the conspiracy typa guy, but you’re like eerily making sense," said another.
"The thought of never being able to actually die is extremely depressing, and it’s giving me a headache,” a third added.
While it does sound cool, there are probably quite a few holes in this theory, but it is definitely an interesting thought.
Topics: Community, Social Media, TikTok