{"id":73358,"date":"2017-10-18T01:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/mathematics-rejuvenation-and-immortality-walk-into-a-bar"},"modified":"2017-10-18T01:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:42:26","slug":"mathematics-rejuvenation-and-immortality-walk-into-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/mathematics-rejuvenation-and-immortality-walk-into-a-bar","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics, rejuvenation, and immortality walk into a bar\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/header-image-new.jpg?w=904\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I often hear the claim that death is a statistical certainty. This is my mathematical take at why this is not true, assuming the defeat of ageing, and no, being immortal is not required.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If a fully rejuvenated person was hit by a train at full speed, I can promise you they would stand the same pathetically low chances of ever being reassembled into a single, barely functional piece as any non-rejuvenated person of any age. Keeping that in mind, if anyone tried to sell me rejuvenation as \u2018immortality\u2019, rest assured I would demand to see the manager right away.<\/p>\n<p>On a different yet unexpectedly related note, if I had a nickel for every time I heard or read something along the lines of \u2018death is inevitable because probability\u2019, I could donate so much money to LEAF the IRS would start thinking they\u2019re a bit too well off for a charity.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and with the rest of the money, I could buy LinkedIn and pay someone to finally give it a user interface you can look at without your eyes bleeding.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/18\/mathematics-rejuvenation-and-immortality-walk-into-a-bar\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/18\/mathematics-r...nto-a-bar\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often hear the claim that death is a statistical certainty. This is my mathematical take at why this is not true, assuming the defeat of ageing, and no, being immortal is not required. If a fully rejuvenated person was hit by a train at full speed, I can promise you they would stand the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73358","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}