Does physics leave room for the spiritual?

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Originally Posted by kagosielu

People often refer to ghost and spirits and all the religious like as supernatural. Meaning outside the realm of science, so it can't be proven or disproven. But what if it's not?

I mean, with all the stuff I read about quantum mechanics(with even that, it's still pretty confusing to me, but I love it), it seems more that ever science has become mystical.

I was just thinking. Even though we can many things in electrons proton and neutrons and the element made from them, we've learned there's much more to the universe than just the stuff on the periodic table. There's gravity, there's dark matter, there's dark energy. Could there be room in there for what would be the spirit?

If there's more more to the universe than atoms, maybe that leaves room for the spirit too, right? And maybe someday, it can be scientifically found and proven. And then we'll have a name for it, just like we have names like "quarks", "axion", "glueball", "meson", "plasmon" and so forth.

Am I right here? Or just completely ignorant about science?

If by "the spiritual" you mean ghosts, spirits, gods, etc. I think science, not necessarily physics, (or scientific thinking rather--looking at the universe as a quantifiable thing that must be studied analytically) is an alternative to this "classical" way of thinking. I personally don't believe in anything supernatural.

I love science. It provides the best way to understand everything around us. There is so much more I want to know.

On the other hand science ultimately doesn't explain anything. In order to "understand" anything you need to "put it in a box"--isolate it and separate it from other things. There lies the great lie. Nothing is separate from anything else, all boundaries are arbitrary. This applies not only to science, but any way of thinking. I know that I know nothing.

Oh jeez, I hope I wrote that in an way that makes sense. lol