All posts tagged: immortality

15-year-old genius sets his sights on solving human immortality

15-year-old genius sets his sights on solving human immortality

He has completed his academic career by finishing his PhD, flying back to Germany with his dad, and preparing for his next educational pursuit. This time, he will be studying medical science with a focus on artificial intelligence and disease treatment. His current age is 15, but he is rushing to complete this degree due to different motivations than most people would expect. Unlike other prodigy types who tend to talk about their accomplishments as if they are bragging, Laurent Simons does not communicate in that manner at all. When describing what he is doing, Simons communicates with a more practical explanation that relies heavily on the engineering-type thinking process. He sees a problem that he wants to fix, and his objective is to find a solution for the problem of death. “The way I look at death is as a huge puzzle with many pieces from many different fields, including biology, medicine, engineering, and physics, that haven’t been assembled yet,” said Simons. “My mission is to help put all of those pieces together.” Simons …

John McGinn becomes the heartbeat of Unai Emery’s quest for Europa League immortality

John McGinn becomes the heartbeat of Unai Emery’s quest for Europa League immortality

Both sides emerge from the tunnel at Villa Park and we are moments away from kick-off. The home fans pay tribute to their manager bringing up 100 wins in charge of Villa. Here is a reminder of how the two sides line up tonight: Aston Villa: Martinez, Bogarde, Lindelof, Torres, Maatsen, Luiz, Onana, McGinn, Rogers, Sancho, Abraham.Substitutes: Bizot, Wright, Mings, Konsa, Digne, Cash, Garcia, Elliott, Buendia, Bailey, Watkins. Lille: Ozer, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Mbemba, Perraud, Bouaddi, Bentalab, Mukau, Meunier, Giroud, Correia.Substitutes: Bodart, Lanssade, Fernandez-Pardo, Haraldsson, Edjouma, Tiago Santos, Mandi, Verdonk, Diaoune, Baret, Boussadia. Source link

A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality

A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality

From your own experiential perspective, the laws of physics are stacked against you if you ever hope to achieve immortality. From a thermodynamic perspective, every system tends toward increasing entropy-and-disorder, and the only way you can combat that is by constantly inputting an external source of energy. In other words, everything about you, including your body and mind, is destined to eventually break down. Although you might try to leverage the power of relativity to dilate time and slow its passage, that will never work from your individual perspective; time only dilates or slows relative to an observer in a different reference frame from your own. No matter how quickly you move or how deep of a gravitational field you enter, you’ll still experience the passage of time as normal: at the rate of one second per second. While this may confine a human’s dream of immortality to solutions that rely on technological enhancements, bio-hacking your body, or science-fiction level technology that relies on novel physical laws and/or phenomena, there’s still plenty that relativity has …

Why ashes? The gift of finding our finitude in a digital world

Why ashes? The gift of finding our finitude in a digital world

(RNS) — I did not grow up with Ash Wednesday. My childhood was mostly spent in nondenominational churches that were liturgically spare and spiritually intense. Sundays promised altar calls and extended prayer, but no liturgical calendar to speak of — no seasons of penitence, no purple vestments and certainly no ritual smudging of foreheads. If someone had mentioned Ash Wednesday to me as a teenager, I would have had only the vaguest idea of what it meant. It was only after a painful church split in my early adulthood that I began wandering into traditions unfamiliar to me. One February evening I found myself at a small Lutheran church and, for the first time, received the imposition of ashes. It was an evening service, and the early darkness felt merciful as it meant I did not yet have to decide to carry the swipe of black ashes on my forehead into the daylight. But I could sense, if not find the words to explain, that something important was taking place. A few years later, when …