@science.nature: A Nobel Prize physicist says nothingness doesn’t exist. Roger Penrose isn’t some guy on a podcast. He’s got the Nobel to his name, and his claim is that there’s simply no such thing as nothing. Then he goes further. Your soul is eternal, he says, because matter cannot be destroyed. Let that land for a second. Every particle that makes up you was around long before you arrived, and none of it gets erased when you leave. If nothing ever truly disappears, the question becomes what happens to the part of you that isn’t just atoms. Death starts looking a lot less like an ending.