May I write an addendum.
It may be that there are physicists on this Forum with the technical knowledge to read Zeilinger's paper and comment on its implications. I would be very interested in their views - provided they can use non-technical language!
The paper in question is:
Groeblacher, Zeilinger et. al.: "An Experimental Test of Non-Local Realism",
Nature 446 871, 2007
Non-physicists may like this layman's synopsis:
http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/t ... ity_tests/Note Zeilinger's words:
"To give up on realism altogether is certainly wrong. .....to give up realism about the moon, that’s ridiculous. But on the quantum level we do have to give up realism."Refer back to Prof. Henry's comment that "Zeilinger just can't take it" - i.e. he states that the data show there is
no material reality at the quantum level, but then declares - with no justification whatsoever - that material reality somehow (by magic?) pops into existence at the macroscopic level!
This all seems a long way from the start of this thread. But the Original Poster wanted evidence for life after death. If materialism is false, and the universe is entirely mental, then the persistence of consciousness - in some form - seems inevitable. There would be, after all, nothing BUT consciousness!