X-Message-Number: 5088 Date: 01 Nov 95 13:45:08 EST From: yvan Bozzonetti <> Subject: High presure cryonics > Re Bob Ettinger's suggestion of flash freezing a brain by >suddenly releasing hyperbaric pressure: Where does the heat of >fusion go? Seems to me that only a small portion of the brain >would freeze until the released heat would raise the temperature >back to 0'C, and the process would stop. > >---Brian Wowk When presure drops, temperature does the same. I would guess that phenomenon dominates the whole picture because, on a thermodynamical ground, it is more fundamental than B. Wowk's pointed out effect. There may be other problems, but not that one. Y.B. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5088