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New Hope For Immortality
It's been argued that, regardless of biomedical advances, true immortality is impossible, simply due to thermodynamics, and the fact that the universe itself is mortal.
Some physicists have come up with a theory that this may not necessarily be so.
Posted by Rand Simberg at May 28, 2002 10:14 AM
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That's what I love about physics... you can say something seriously that otherwise would have people calling for the butterfly nets.
Posted by ken anthony at May 28, 2002 12:15 PM
Entropy only applies to a closed system. Things go in and out of bodies all the time -- they are not closed. No reason to think that (given the right circumstances and intervention) that they really couldn't last forever.
Not that I think it will happen soon -- or that it will happen ever. But I don't think there is any reason to think it shouldn't, either.
Posted by k at May 30, 2002 07:26 PM
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