The big freeze

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3080, 2016, págs. 26-31
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After years of searching, architect Stephen Valentine chose this site as the unlikely home of the new Mecca of cryogenics. Called Timeship, the monolithic building will become the world's largest structure devoted to cryopreservation, and will be home to thousands of people who are neither dead nor alive, frozen in time in the hope that one day technology will be able to bring them back to life. And last month, building work began. Cryonics, the cooling of humans in the hope of reanimating them later, has a reputation as a vanity project for those who have more money than sense, but this "center for immortality" is designed to be about much more than that. Here, Thomson investigates how a groundbreaking cryogenic center could revolutionize health.