X-Message-Number: 8108
From: Keith Lynch <>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CRYONICS The limits of recovery

In #8098 yvan Bozzonetti <> wrote:
> ... Now, if we could reverse time, at least in a localized domain,
> we could send the matter on its time reversal course and get back
> the full ordered system: a living corpse. ...

Sure.  But much of what you would need to time-reverse consists of
infrared photons racing away from Earth in all directions at the speed
of light.  Even if we were able to detect and analyze all photons over
an area of many square light-years, first we would have to travel
faster than light to get ahead of them.

Forget it.  If the information to reconstruct a patient isn't *in*
the patient, that patient isn't coming back.  Not unless God or
Frank Tipler intervenes, anyway.
-- 
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/
I boycott all spammers.

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