There's an idea in physics about the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) being the generator of dark matter and/or dark energy. The BEC is a fifth state of matter that was only discovered about 25 years ago. It can only happen at extremely low temperatures near absolute zero, which fits the models for dark matter and energy because they are thought to exist in larger proportions outside galaxies, where temperatures are as low as they can get.
A BEC is a large group of atoms that occupy the lowest quantum state, allowing their wavelengths to merge into one entity that acts on a macroscopic scale. Presumably this can act on scales as large as the voids between galaxies, where you might find huge oceans of BEC gases with particles that all interact on the same quantum level.
Eventually, all the clusters of galaxies will collapse under their own gravity. The voids between them will merge into one. When all the stars burn up and the galaxies are swallowed by black holes, perhaps all that will be left is a universal BEC, an infinite ocean of leftover gas acting as one body. Every particle left in the universe would vibrate under a single quantum wavelength. I can think of no better physical description for God than this.
The spiritual parallel is the mind's journey to oneness, or non-duality: an integration with all there is, typically attained through years of meditation. That there is a physical corollary could mean that the mind enters such a state after death, when the body is lost but consciousness remains. In the afterlife, we might be able to travel on many different layers of BEC states, similar to ascending or descending the astral planes, which are thought by many mystics to pervade the universe.
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