X-Message-Number: 9242
Subject: A true British gentleman
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:18:46 -0600
From: Will Dye <>

Physicist Stephen Hawking will be giving a presentation at 
the White House as a part of a series of lectures about life 
in the next millenium.  They invited e-mail questions in 
advance, so on a lark I went ahead and sent one in.  

I doubt if my question will be noticed among the many that 
will probably be submitted.  But I thought you CryoNet folk 
might find it humorous, so I'll cc it here: 

  |  Professor Hawking,                                 
  |                                                     
  |  The next millenium promises great advances in      
  |  medicine.  Do you know of anything in the realm    
  |  of physics that would prevent people who are       
  |  cryosuspended today from being revived in the      
  |  future?                                            
  |                                                     
  |  After all, Professor, much of your work involves   
  |  predictions that can't be completely confirmed     
  |  for thousands of years.  I think it's only proper  
  |  that a British gentleman should make himself       
  |  available to pay off the wager if he loses.  :-)   
  |
  |  William L. Dye
  |  

Closed or open universe?  Gentlemen, place your bets...  :-)

--Will

P.S.  Since someone will probably ask me, the lecture is at 
7:30 PM EST on March 6th, and will be carried on C-SPAN and 
possibly CNN, as well as broadcast over the Internet at:

 http://www.sun.com/newmedia/whitehouse/stephen_hawking.html

I will not be able to listen to it, because of a scheduling 
conflict, and I can't tape it because I don't get cable TV 
anymore.  If by chance he addresses my question, I would be 
interested in hearing what he had to say on the matter.  

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