A Physicist Said Heaven Has a Literal Address. The Science World Is Reacting Just Like You’d Expect.

For as long as we’ve looked up at the sky, we’ve all wondered the same thing: If there’s really life after death, something beyond this universe, where would it actually be?

Now, one physicist says he has an answer. And it starts at the very edge of what we can see.

That’s the idea behind one of Pop Mech’s most provocative stories … ever. It’s called, “Heaven Has a Physical Location, a Physicist Claims—And He Thinks He Knows Where in the Universe It Is.” It’s even wilder than it sounds.

It all hinges on a real concept in cosmology called the “cosmic horizon,” the farthest distance light has had time to reach us since the Big Bang. And just beyond that invisible boundary, one scientist says, could lie a literal, physical version of heaven.

Watch Pop Mech editors John Gilpatrick and Andrew Daniels talk about the unbelievable claim, break down where this idea comes from, and pinpoint where it quickly runs into trouble.

John and Andrew walk through the actual science of the expanding universe, why the cosmic horizon isn’t a wall or edge, and why many physicists are pushing back hard on the claim.

Watch the full episode above now, and find more installments of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show” on PopularMechanics.com.

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