The Repairable Human - Cryonics and Beyond. This article discusses three items (listed below). Existing processes, events, and technologies are described to support their accuracy. Then, it is introduced how people or groups can apply these items with established technologies, to create the possibility of saving individual human lives that would otherwise always be lost. 1. The biological processes in cells and organisms (collectively referred to as life), including human life, can be slowed, stopped, stored for an indefinite period of time, and restarted (resuscitated). 2. Any object that is made of matter can be created, repaired, or destroyed. The above two paragraphs contain only common observations. 1. The first half of this list represents fairly normal repairs, things that humanity can already accomplish. Number 6 on the list was actually accomplished very recently.
The second half of the list contains types of repairs that we have not yet accomplished. No one can predict exactly how technology will develop. Cryonics Institute. Cryonics Institute. Cryonics: Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Cryogenics. Liquid nitrogen In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures (below −150 °C, −238 °F or 123 K). A person who studies elements that have been subjected to extremely cold temperatures is called a cryogenicist. Rather than the relative temperature scales of Celsius and Fahrenheit, cryogenicists use the absolute temperature scales. These are Kelvin (SI units) or Rankine scale (Imperial and US units). Definitions and distinctions[edit] Cryogenics The branches of physics and engineering that involve the study of very low temperatures, how to produce them, and how materials behave at those temperatures.
Cryobiology The branch of biology involving the study of the effects of low temperatures on organisms (most often for the purpose of achieving cryopreservation). Cryosurgery The branch of surgery applying very low temperatures (down to -196 °C) to destroy malignant tissue, e.g. cancer cells. Cryonics Cryoelectronics Cryotronics Cryoethics.