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Show Science Invents Way to Suspend Life Of Low Organisms Into Distant Future Science, playing the role of a modern mod-ern Joshua, has devised a method whereby life can be commanded to stand still in a latent state in which no change can take place for tens of thousands of years, it was reported report-ed before the American Philosophical Philosophi-cal society, according to a Philadelphia Philadel-phia correspondent in the Boston Herald. While the new method of making time stand still can be applied at present only to very small living organisms, such as yeast cells and bacteria, with no present indications indica-tions that it could ever be applied to larger living forms, it opens up new vistas for the future, both theoretical the-oretical and practical, it was pointed point-ed out. In this new state of being, described de-scribed as the "latent state of life," one minute in the life of the organism organ-ism can be stretched out to 10,000 years, the philosophers were told by Professor Alexander Goetz, noted physicist of the California Institute of Technology, inventor of the time-arresting time-arresting process. Forms of suspended animation have been achieved before in lower realms of life but the earlier processes proc-esses were based on an entirely different dif-ferent principle, much more limited limit-ed in its scope than Dr. Goetz's method for producing latent life, in which animation, instead of being merely suspended for comparatively short periods, can be placed in a state of apparently complete inanimation inani-mation for periods of time that, from a terrestrial point of view, may be regarded as timeless. In an interview. Professor Goetz revealed that he is applying his new "time machine" to human sperm cells, in an effort to establish whether wheth-er the seed of human genius may not be placed in a state of latent life to be revivified from generation to generation, thus preserving the talents of future Newtons, Shake-speares, Shake-speares, and Beethovens for all generations gen-erations to come. |