How Cold is Cold Enough? estimates that 1 second at body temperature is equivalent to 24.628 million years at LN2 temperatures, as far as chemical reactions are concerned. The speed of nuclear processes isn’t changed of course.
Hmm, that’s a much tighter estimate. (The page is poorly written (and frankly comes across as condescending(telling people that “exp” is some mathematical operation is not helpful) and poorly formatted. This is not good when cryonics already triggers some peoples’ crank warning detectors) The math seems correct. That gives a much better bound for when chemical reactions will be an issue. It seems strongly then that my initial estimate that chemical reactions prevent kiloyear preservation is pretty wrong.
How Cold is Cold Enough? estimates that 1 second at body temperature is equivalent to 24.628 million years at LN2 temperatures, as far as chemical reactions are concerned. The speed of nuclear processes isn’t changed of course.
Hmm, that’s a much tighter estimate. (The page is poorly written (and frankly comes across as condescending(telling people that “exp” is some mathematical operation is not helpful) and poorly formatted. This is not good when cryonics already triggers some peoples’ crank warning detectors) The math seems correct. That gives a much better bound for when chemical reactions will be an issue. It seems strongly then that my initial estimate that chemical reactions prevent kiloyear preservation is pretty wrong.