Quantum Field Theory provides plenty of excellent evidence that nothing 'supernatural' can exist that interacts with humans. No gods, souls, spirits, ghosts, telepathic powers, prayers, telekinesis, astral projection, or anything else not mediated by one of the four fundamental forces/fields/bosons of the Standard Model.
Quantum theory doesn't tell you what "supernatural" consists of, and it doesn't tell you what kind of
processes would be involved to be
defined as such. Sure we have had the term
supernatural for centuries but it was a discription of something "unknown, mysterious, not normal, beyond human comprehension. To say that nothing supernatural can interact with humans is to imply that we
know what
supernatural actually IS and
how it should work (or not work), in the quantum universe (if in consideration one would know the full workings).
You might be excused for guessing that that would be the case. But it turns out that it's not.
In fact, we only need to know ALL of the possible interactions that natural substances can have with anything, to be sure that there are no 'unknown' interactions.
And we now DO know. Because mass and energy are interchangeable, every force is associated with a particle, and concentrating sufficient energy in one place will cause any particles below the mass limit (set by the amount of energy used) to be formed.
Big particle accelerators can concentrate collossal amounts of energy into very small volumes, and as a result these must produce all of the force-carrying particles (bosons) that can exist at that energy. So we can be certain that the only forces which interact with real matter are those we know about, or those that only apply at extreme energies, which we cannot yet reach even in our largest particle accelerators.
As those extreme energies are incompatible with life unless spread over a vast volume of space, they cannot mediate an interaction with an individual human being (or human brain); Either they would have to affect every person on the planet in the exact same way at any moment in time (as, for example, the gravity of the galactic core does); Or they would have to be sufficiently concentrated as to vapourise the person involved, along with a sizeable fraction of his home town.
So it turns out that we need not know anything about the supernatural. We can know enough about the natural to be completely certain that it ONLY interacts with the four known forces, under conditions compatible with human life.
There may well be other forces as yet unknown; In fact, we know that there must be. But these can only exist under extreme conditions, or at truly galactic scales. They cannot interact differentially on humans sharing a single planet, any more than you could pick up just one atom from a dropped coin. You can pick up the coin, but you simply don't have the ability to discriminate between individual atoms. Likewise, any hypothetical gods couldn't discriminate between the planets of our solar system, much less between individual humans, other than via the known forces - all of which we could easily detect if it were happening.
Are you (plural) so sure to the claims that such "notions" would require the suspension of the laws of physics or that supernatural could not alternatively mean the manipulation of forces?
Yes.
I make no claim here btw that science tells you either way which corroborates with southerns post:
do you believe that garden fairies, Santa, pixies and leprechauns exist? No? Can you prove they don't exist? I didn't think so.
I
DO make a claim that science tells us. That you haven't learned the science doesn't change that fact.
