{"id":111830,"date":"2020-08-23T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-quantum-computers-could-make-future-humans-immortal"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:24:28","slug":"how-quantum-computers-could-make-future-humans-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-quantum-computers-could-make-future-humans-immortal","title":{"rendered":"How quantum computers could make future humans immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-quantum-computers-could-make-future-humans-immortal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As best we can guess, life started on planet Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. Unfortunately, so did death. And the reaper remains undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>About 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. There\u2019s <i>almost<\/i> no scientific reason to believe humans won\u2019t join them in a relatively insignificant amount of time. I say <i>almost<\/i> because, if we try really hard, we can conceive of a theoretical, science-based intervention for death. Let\u2019s call it a \u201cquantum respawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not the first generation to imagine immortality. But we are the first one to have access to this really cool research paper from physicists working at the University of Rochester in New York, and Purdue University in Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As best we can guess, life started on planet Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. Unfortunately, so did death. And the reaper remains undefeated. About 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. There\u2019s almost no scientific reason to believe humans won\u2019t join them in a relatively insignificant amount of time. I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,269,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}