> This is not a religious question—it's a philosophical and scientific one. > There’s a line of thought—found in Advaita Vedanta... Um... right. It's at leas

> This is not a religious question—it's a philosophical and scientific one. > There’s a line of thought—found in Advaita Vedanta... Um... right. It's at least partly a religious question. From a pure physics perspective, it seems to me that if this were true, then we should have been a lot more aware of things like neutrinos before they were "discovered". We should be a lot more aware of dark matter now. So, in practical terms, it doesn't work like that.