14/09/2026
A Nobel Prize winning physicist says something inside you may never truly disappear. π§ Sir Roger Penrose, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020, developed a theory with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff called Orchestrated Objective Reduction. It suggests consciousness comes from quantum activity happening inside tiny structures called microtubules in our brain cells. They propose that when the body dies, this quantum information does not simply vanish. Instead it disperses back into the universe. β¨
This idea connects to a basic law of physics, matter and energy cannot be destroyed, only changed in form. It offers a strange kind of comfort, the thought that some part of us continues on. But most scientists still see this as a fascinating and unproven idea rather than confirmed fact. Maybe endings are never really final. π
Sources: Nature, Penrose Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Physics of Life Reviews, Hameroff and Penrose Orch OR theory