11-12-2012, 01:42 PM
CRYONICS ON WAY TO RAISING THE DEAD? (NANO TECHNOLOGY)
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Abstract:
Today technology plays
a vital role in every aspect of life.
Increasing standards in technology in
many fields , has taken man today to
high esteem. But the present available
technologies are unable to interact
with the atoms, such a minute
particles. Hence Nanotechnology has
been developing. Nanotechnology is
nothing but a technology which uses
atoms with a view to creating a
desired product. It has wider
applications in all the fields. The
important application is Cryonics..
Introduction:
Today technology plays a
vital role in every aspect of life.
Incresing standards in technology in
many fields particularly in medicine,
has taken man today to high esteem.
Nanotechnology is a new technology
that is knocking at the doors.This
technology uses atoms with a view to
creating a desired product. The term
nanotechnology has been a
combination of two terms,”nano”and “
technology”.The term nano is derived
from a Greek word “nanos” which
means “dwarf”. Thus nanotechnology
is dwarf technology. A nanometer is
one billionth of a metre.
History:
The first mention of
nanotechnology occurred in a talk
given by Richard Feynman in 1959,
entitled There’s plenty of Room at
the Bottom. Historically cryonics
began in 1962 with the publication of
“The prospect of immortality” referred
by Robert Ettinger, a founder and the
first president of the cryonics
institute. During 1980’s the extent of
the damage from freezing process
became much clearer and better
known, when the emphasis of the
movement began to shift to the
capabilities of nanotechnology. Alcor
Life Extension Foundation currently
preserves about 70 human bodies and
heads in Scottsdale, Arizona and the
cryonics institute has about the same
number of cryonic patients in its
Clinton Township, Michigan facility.
There are no cryonics service
provided outside of the U.S.A. also
there are support groups in Europe,
Canada, Australia & U.K.
Cryonics:
The word "cryonics" is the
practice of freezing a dead body in hopes
of someday reviving it. A Cryonics is
the practice of cooling people
immediately after death to the point
where molecular physical decay
completely stops, in the expectation that
scientific and medical procedures
currently being developed will be able to
revive them and restore them to good
health later. A patient held in such a
state is said to be in 'cryonic suspension.
Cryonics is the practice of
cryopreserving humans and pets (who
have recently become legally dead) until
the cryopreservation damage can be
reversed and the cause of the fatal
disease can be cured (including the
disease known as aging).
Revival process:
Critics have often quipped
that it is easier to revive a corpse than a
cryonically frozen body. Many
cryonicists might actually agree with
this, provided that the "corpse" were
fresh, but they would argue that such a
"corpse" may actually be biologically
alive, under optimal conditions. A
declaration of legal death does not mean
that life has suddenly ended—death is a
gradual process, not a sudden event.
Rather, legal death is a declaration by
medical personnel that there is nothing
more they can do to save the patient. But
if the body is clearly biologically dead.