The ‘world’s smartest’ man has revealed what he thinks happens when we die.
One of humanity’s most profound questions is: “What happens after we die?”
Chris Langan, a 72-year-old American horse rancher reputed to have an IQ between 190 and 210 – 30 to 50 points higher than Albert Einstein – claims he may have the answer.
He’s developed a theory called the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), which he says bridges the gap between mind and reality.
Langan argues that death is not the end of existence but rather a transition to another state.
He theorizes that consciousness, or the ‘soul,’ shifts to a different plane of reality—one that remains inaccessible during physical life.
While his hypothesis deviates from traditional views, Langan suggests that this transition leads the soul into an entirely new mode of being.
During his appearance on the Theories of Everything podcast with Curt Jaimungal, he described death as “the termination of your relationship with your particular physical body that you have at this present time.”
He further explained, “When you are retracted from this reality, you go back up toward the origin of reality.”
Langan proposes that this shift might involve receiving a ‘substitute body’ to continue existence in the new dimension.
He also believes that while memories from one’s life don’t disappear entirely, they are usually no longer relevant in the new plane.
The man often called the ‘world’s smartest’ explained: “Your memories can always be pulled back out, but there’s usually no reason to… Why cling to memories of a world in which you are no longer instantiated?”
Langan compared the post-death state to a form of deep meditation, where everything appears to change yet remains fundamentally interconnected.
He elaborated: “Arguably, all of your lifetimes… all of those reincarnations are meta-simultaneous. There is a sense in which they all occur at once in the non-terminal domain.”
Rather than a conventional afterlife, Langan describes this shift as a profound transition beyond the physical and mental self into an entirely new realm of existence.
His Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), which he presents as a true ‘Theory of Everything,’ is built on three key principles:
- Reality is fundamentally information-based, structured like a language.
- It is ‘transtemporal’, meaning events across different timelines can influence each other.
- It operates as a self-simulated reality, where a ‘panconsciousness’ emerges from the creator or simulator.
Watch as the ‘world’s smartest man’ reveals his perspective on what happens after death below.
