Can We Live Forever

CAN WE LIVE FOREVER
[THROUGH THE WORMHOLE]
Morgan Freeman
S02E08

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513168/

EXCERPTS:

Can We Live Forever

"In just the past 200 years,
the average life-span has doubled
from about 40 to almost 80 years."


One of the iron laws of physics
is the second law of thermodynamics,
which says that everything rusts,
everything decays, falls apart.
We're all made out of atoms,
and these atoms in turn,
obey the second law of thermodynamics.

Anything and everything in the universe
has the tenancy to go from order to disorder.
And once the damage is done,
it's extremely difficult to reverse things and un-mix them.
It's a process known as entropy.




CRYOPRESERVATION
(Preserving the organs)

The goal of this team at biotech outfit 21st Century Medicine
is to freeze human organs and tissues
so that they can be revived,
undamaged, centuries from now.

Cryopreservation is the preservation of living systems
at very low temperatures.
 
...biological glass -- a technique he calls vitrification.

VITRIFICATION

Vitrification is the formation of a glass.
So if you take water and you mix it with various chemicals
in high-enough concentrations of chemical
and then cool it down to low temperaturs,
the system will never freeze no matter how low you go.

So if you cool to below that glass-transiton temperature,
our calculation indicate you can store a system
for tens of thousand of years.

Imagine being able to put your body on ice
and then being revived 10,000 years from now.
You could wake up and find yourself
in an age when science has made immortality possible.


Science and Religion:

We're taught to think of science and religion
as separate truths.
Albert Einstein didn't believe that.
He said, "Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind."
The secret to achieving immortality
could reuire the fusion of humanity and God   
into an everlasting cosmic computer.

Frank predicts that,
at some point in our evolution,
something truly remarkable will happen.
Humanity, the Universe, and God will unite --
a moment he calls the OMEGA POINT.

The Omega Point is the very end of the Universe.
In the process, mankind, or, more precisely, our descendants,
will expand out from this planet
and ultimately engulf the entire Universe.
As our descendants are moving into this final state,
their knowledge and their power and their computer capacity
is increasing without limit.

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ALLOW A PROCESS THAT WILL CONVERT MATTER
... INTO PURE ENERGY.
THAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE ENERGY SOURCE,
WHICH OUR DESCENDANTS WILL USE AND GAIN CONTROL OF IT.

We will be resurrected but we will never have to go through death again.

Frank claims the laws of physics
not only permit this type of immortality --
they actually require it to happen.

Second law of thermodynamics says
the complexity of the universe at the most fundamental level
is increasing without limit.
I conclude
that the validity of the second law of thermodynamics,
throughout all of time,
actually requires life
to come into existence to gain control of the Universe.


CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW.
It's designed to tick for 10,000 years.

10,000 years in the past we were still living in the Stone Age.
Flash forward the same period,
and our civilization and technology will be unrecognizable.

We realize in designing a 10,000-year clock
THAT THE MOST DURABLE DESIGN IS LIKELY THE SIMPLEST.
The clock of the long now will be ALL MECHANICAL.
[BINGO! So for a long term, even being in advanced in technology, we don't use it, because any big disaster -- storm of the sun, or whatever, can destroy everything. so we use more durable -- mechanical, technology. So in same process, our Ancient Civilizations, could have been also (to some extent) Advanced, much advanced than we consider them, but when they tried to give us a message -- a message to people of 10,000 years now, they used more durable techniques, like big stones, pyramids... and most of them are still mystery (watch Ancient Aliens series) how they made it, how they moved it, and how they did it... in short: when you programme (make) a thing which last longer, use a material which lasts longer. abro]
Power in the clock will come from the force of gravity.
A weight-driven system will turn a threaded bar.
And the clock will keep time
in both the short term, with the pendulum,
and in the long term, through a solar synchronizer.
This device may or may not last for 10 millennia,
but that's not really Alexander's point.


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