X-Message-Number: 14440 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:42:06 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Big Bang, revival/resurrection George Smith, #14432, says > >Please remember that the current popular "Big Bang" theory, from which the >idea of "Black Holes" comes, could simply be wrong. > >The criticisms made of this theory in the book THE BIG BANG NEVER HAPPENED >by Eric Lerner have yet to be countered. There is a fairly extensive critique at: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html More generally, some recent postings have argued in the direction that maybe information about past persons will always be recoverable, so that cryonics patients will be revivable no matter what shape they are in. This idea is considered at length in my book, *Forever for All*. I take the position that the hidden past will not be recoverable, but that there are compensations. It is better, I argue, to be frozen at death than not (a chapter is devoted to this issue) even when the possibility of a future resurrection by other means (which I also make a case for) is taken into account. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14440