This man with a reportedly 210 IQ, once called the smartest man in America, claims death isn't the end. He believes your next life could already exist RIGHT NOW, even while you're still alive in this one. Christopher Langan developed a theory called the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU). According to his theory, death doesn't destroy consciousness. It simply ends your connection to your current physical body, allowing consciousness to transition toward what he calls the origin of reality. He suggests the soul could move to another dimension or plane of existence inaccessible to us while we're alive. Langan also proposes that consciousness could eventually be provided with another physical form, what he calls a substitute or "terminal" body. He argues that memories aren't necessarily erased when you die. Within his mathematical model, nothing truly goes out of existence, meaning the information associated with your previous life could theoretically be recovered. You might simply have no reason to remember it anymore. Langan suggests that all your reincarnations could be "meta-simultaneous," meaning that from a deeper level of reality, your different lifetimes may coexist rather than unfold one after another. He even argues that his theory can establish the existence of God, the soul, and an afterlife through mathematics. But if all your lives already exist somewhere beyond time, does that mean your entire future is already written, including the moment you die? Or do we actually have free will?