And yet, this is still a far cry compared to the total number of people who have ever lived and died. That number is estimated to be around 108 billion.
It suggests we may die many times throughout our lives. With each passing, our consciousness moves, slides, jumps or shifts to the closest timeline, very similar to the one where we died. It is a concept that was combined with other ideas and morphed into what Jerry and others suggest could have happened, among other potential explanations.
One possible explanation is that you may have indeed experienced death in another timeline, but your consciousness continued in an alternate reality. Jerry* had one such experience. He asked for his identity remain secret because he doesn’t want people to “think he is crazy.” “I know how this sounds,” he said.
The only viable timelines are those where you took the day off, went in very late, were sick, your car broke down, etc. Because you died in all these other timelines, many potential realities closed off for you and your options were significantly limited. Any scenario where you were in that building is no longer open to you to experience.
About 105,000,000,000 humans have ever been born in the last 10,000 years. One calculation is about 108,000,000,000 in the last 60,000 years. There are about 7,000,000,000 humans still alive today. It is fully sustainable! Provided we are technologically advanced as much as today, or ideally, a bit more.
We know that names are a form of complex symbolism, so a species capable of complex symbolism ought to also be at least capable of forming or applying naming conventions. H. sapiens and H. neadnerthalensis are known to have engaged in complex ritual burials, at least going back to around 130,000 years ago.
Let’s assume that a man becomes gradually more bald each year, month, and day of his adult life. Having at first enjoyed a normal, thick, head of hair, it must be true that at one point the man was not bald. But by the end of his life, the man is quite indisputably bald.
Human evolution did not happen in distinct leaps. Homo erectus did not give birth one fine day to Homo sapiens. Evolution is primarily a smooth, continuous process, so there is no way to identify the first human. The human’s evolutionary past is not a tree, but a bush.
The human’s evolutionary past is not a tree, but a bush. You might be able to roughly figure how many have lived and died since a point in history, but even that’s unlikely, as most humans didn’t live in cities and hence weren’t noted or counted. Reproduction rates vary from place to pl. Continue Reading.
Everyone that is ever born since 2478 AD (or so) will always be alive. This is actually quite cool. The birthrate will be low, but new births will exist for another few hundred years until further advancements happen. By around 700 to 800 years from now, we will be beyond space and time.
The annual death rate depends on the specific strain of the virus that is dominant, how well the vaccine is working to protect against that strain, and how many people got vaccinated, according to Dr. Adalja.
Preliminary CDC estimates for the 2019-2020 influenza season indicate that, as of April 4, 2020, between 24,000 and 62,000 lost their lives to the flu.
So, it will come as no surprise to learn that the total number of people who died during 20h century wars is around 100 million . If all of these soldiers were to line up in a single battle, it would take a city-sized battlefield and would require an army five times larger than all of the world’s armies combined.
It’s fair to assume that prior to the birth of civilizations like the Egyptians, not many died as a result of war, simply because we didn’t have the tools or population for it to be fought on a big scale and it was more village vs village as opposed to country vs country.
The Roman Invasion of France (Gael) and then Britain was said to have taken as many as 1 million and 200,000 lives respectively, beginning the new millennium with bloodshed. In total, it’s fair to assume that more than 10 million lives were lost between 400BC to 500BC and the year 0.
That’s why so many of those that died in the First World War died from diseases and infections, as opposed to guns and bombs. It was also one of the first wars ...
While the Persians, Greeks and Romans were forging the first truly huge-scale conflicts in the West, Chinese states were fighting their own in the east, with the Warring States Period said to have taken the lives of over 1 million. The Punic Wars, where Carthage went up against Rome, may have taken as many as 4 million lives, ...
The Syrian War has been one of the biggest so far and it has been estimated that around half a million have perished in that conflict and related conflicts.
The country that suffered the most military deaths during the First World War was the German Empire, followed closely by Russia, two countries on opposing sides. If you focus on total deaths then the Russians suffered the most, followed by the Ottoman Empire, as each recorded around 3 million deaths.
If you chose to be in the building that day, you experienced a quantum death. You slid to another timeline. When there are no other realities to move to and you’ve exhausted all possible outcomes for you to live, then your consciousness experiences ultimate and final death.
Photo by Brandon Green on Unsplash. Quantum immortality started as a thought experiment in the late 1980s, and later was more fully developed by physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark. It suggests we may die many times throughout our lives. With each passing, our consciousness moves, slides, jumps or shifts to the closest timeline, ...
Initially, switching timelines is usually seamless because there are so many more possible realities that are almost identical to the one you’re experiencing. You have a statistically low probability of encountering what makes the timeline different.
Quantum death does not equal the collapse of only one reality, but every reality where you have run out of options for existence as a result of that choice.
A dress may now be green instead of blue, or a friend goes by their middle name. Others suggest a slide occurs for the entire world with major events such as 9/11 being one such marker. There is a cyclical nature to most shifts repeating every three or 11 years with the next major slide due in 2026 and again in 2029.
It is worth noting that this experiment was based on Eugene Wigner’s “Friend Test” which also started as a thought experiment, similar to Tegmark’s Quantum Immortality. Science has since verified it in the laboratory. So there is hope that quantum immortality may be tested.
The reason I say that either one would work is that the purpose of grammar is to communicate clearly. Bad grammar makes your writing harder to read and understand. Either one of those sentences is clear and understandable, so while “had taken” is correct, “took” is also acceptable.
Whereas, “ Complete” specifically means to complete or finalize a task or a goal. Look at the examples below. The teacher asked a student to write an essay. After completing writing an essay, the student said: “I have completed.”. It implies that “ I have completed” is primarily relevant to any task or any goal that is bound by time, ...