X-Message-Number: 3752 Date: 26 Jan 95 12:48:54 EST From: yvan Bozzonetti <> Subject: Late answer C. Platt # 3664 and R. Ettinger # 3669. First I apologize for that late answer, I was out of the net for some time for both, familly problems and time travel planning :-). C. Platt rejects "Daedelus" opinion because he is a simple journalist... So You never read about Nature? In fact, Daedalus (Professor David Jones) is a chemistry teacher, a perfet background to give an opinion on a quantum process. Nature is not an ordinary new magazine, it is a 125 years professional science journal, all its "journalists" have at least a PhD. So i aam serious when I say there may be something to look at in quantized slow displacement. To jump from here to flash freezing cryonics may be premature, that is why my message was not sent to Sci. CRYONICS. Sorry, another bad new for you: Healing by radio waves may be a bad example of pseudo science: See "Forest grows tall on radio waves" in the January 14 issue of New Scientist, p.14. It seems low frequency waves can accelerate ion exchange in biological membranes. That work as a fertiliser on some trees. The same process must work on animal cells, so I would be rather careful before speaking about pseudo science in this case. ------------ R. Ettinger thinks, in message # 3669 that accelerated temperature drop at transition temperature could solve the microtubule problem. The difficulty comes from the large temperature range implied in the process. Microtubules starts to disapear at 15 degree C in mammal cells, so I think there is really an incompatibility between microtubule conservation and cooling without cracking. The only way out is to add colchicin to the perfusate. this product is largely used in cell experiments so it can be found on the market and its use for cryonics must be without legal problem. Y. Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3752