User:Wormulon/Stuff

This page is well, for things which don't fit elsewhere. Trivia about me, this wiki, music that goes with my fiction, favourite quotes and more. Arguably they could be on my main userpage, but I don't want it too large.

Dispelling misconceptions about me
Some users have written about themselves. So will I.

I'm not gonna reveal too much personal information, partly because it has been used against me before, some troll who thought it funny to name himself after me. Basically, I'm 17, I live in the UK and rant about a lot of things in it. I consider my real self to be a rebel, although this may not be true in action. My beliefs is athiest, but I like mystiscm, Taoism and Buddhism enough to believe certain principles.

In real life, I'm not the same person I am here. I have a lot less friends, I can't say I've really had many true ones for years (except for one, who is really my parents' friend). But I don't really care, why should I be like them to impress them? I'm also lazier than I would like to be! I am autistic, mildly, though I consider it a good thing (we are superior **eyes flash**), though it is probably why not many like me. I'm weird and eccentric (not in any pervy sense), but weirdness I think achieves new talents which peopple who like to be Sheep, never reach. Sheep simply follow their prophets, often in the form of elitest bullies. I will not sink to their level.

People tend to think I'm sort of genius, maybe because I write science with a philosophical style. My IQ is 88, apparently. 85 is Borderline, 100 is average. Surprised? I'm not. My mathematical abilities are so poor I'm worried I'll never get a Higher Education. A 10 year old could beat me at maths. So I think I've have got Discalculia. My hair falls out if I do maths. My problem solving is very poor, watching me is like watching Laurel and Hardy. Yes, I have good memory, imagination (hopefully) and good at theory and science, but the sad fact is that it can't be used if I can't do maths. A career in science is what I want too. In contrast to my phsychologist (yes I went mad once or twice) who told me half my life ago I was in the top-ten cleverist in every 100. But knowledge and intelligence are different things.

I don't want to be all emo. My life is quite good, not too poor, not too rich. I have fun adventures on family-owned boats, I've seen a lot, I was home eductated for several years etc. etc. etc.

My ancestors are something I'm proud of. They were Vikings - warriors and explorers - not just any, ones who sailed the seas to America. Otherwise I have Russian (is that why I don't smile?) , Polish and Irish. Later on, they controlled Northumberland, then the Viking descendants mined coal up in Northen England, extra toughened, and fought in WWII (one of my relatives still has shrapnel in his brain). Several of people from this side became famous. And to this day, they are tough! Maybe this is where my "rebel" feeling comes from, but compared to them I'm rather "diluted" with other genes so not as tough as them.

Finally, I'm not a nerd. Science isn't my only interest. I keep fit physically, I do outdoor things and study Countryside Management, which is a lot of physical things and I'm surrounded by Farmers in it who would destroy any nerds. But I've been a punk, a metalhead, a boat gypsi, and a geek to several things. I like to explore my mind in meditation, and mantra.

Wiki me
I've been editing under a user account since 2008. A long time now. I remember SporeWiki's golden age and want it back. I've risen to admin through pillaging and conquering like my ancestors.

Seriously though, something I like to maintain on this wiki is "democracy" and "collaboration". I do not like to see social problems rise, and I prefer to be neutral point of view is such moments, even though I haven't always been.

I used to be very active in important editing, but I've let this slant to fiction and IRC mostly.

Other wiki's I visit and edit: Infinity: The Quest for Earth (founder), Maxis Wiki (cofounder), James Cameron's Avatar Wiki (editor, though I find it hard to edit anything there), Spore Fanfic Wiki (regular), Star Wars Wiki (visitor), Memory Alpha (visitor), Stargate Wiki (visitor), Uncyclopedia (visitor), Gaming Wiki (contributed to Spore and Infinity) and Wikipedia (editor). Furthermore, I've helped out countless wiki's.

Favourite quotes
"The universe is but the dream of the god, who after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep, and the universe dissolves with him, until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself, and begins again to dream, the great cosmic lotus dream. Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own god, dreaming the cosmic dream."

- --Carl Sagan

"These great ideas, are tempered by another, perhaps still greater. It is said, that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather, that the gods, are the dreams of men."

- --Carl Sagan

"Our thoughts, our visions and our fantasies have a tangible, physical reality."

- Carl Sagan

"What we see of the real world, is perhaps not the unvarnished real world, but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed, so its useful for dealing with the real world, the nature of the model in our head, depends on the kind of animal we are."

- --Richard Dawkins on perception.

"You only find human beings, on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind with temperature of this kind, supplied by a conveniant neighboring star. Just as a flower is flowering in the field, I feel myself as a person peopling the whole...Universe. I see, like everything ese, to be a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe, realizes itself, comes alive, a sort of apecture, for which the whole universe is conscious of itself.  Each one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in a way it does only because everything else around it does."

- --Alan Watts

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- --Arthur C. Clarke

"A Dreeeaaam to some... A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!"

- -- Merlin, from Excalibur.

"The old world will burn in the fires of industry, the forests will fall, a new order will arise. We will drive the machine of war with the soul, and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc!"

- --Saruman, Lord of the Rings

"They will have time enough, in all those endless aeons, to attempt all things and gather all knowledge... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow from creation; for we knew the universe when it was young."

- --Arthur C. Clarke, on how great civilisations may become near the end of the age of stars.

Favourite interests
Yes, I like science, but do not think I am good or familiar at every form of it, like biology (unless its fitness or the mind). I don't claim to be outright genius on my subjects, what a pompous prat I would be if I claimed to be. The fact of the matter is that I woudn't make a good scientist at all! I have almost zero maths capability, and my practical logic has gone out the window a long time ago, probably because I edit this place too much. I have plenty of non-scientific interests. I admit I am probably a bit of a geek, but not of the nerdy sort as I also like the outdoors and do countryside management which is mostly physical work.
 * Science
 * 1) Planetary Geology
 * Lithospheric geology - Mineralogy, crystallography
 * Meteorology
 * 2) Theoretical physics - Special/General Relaltivity, Quantum Mechanics, String/M-Theory, Holographic Principle
 * 3) Astrophysics - Stellar evolution, Cosmology, Astrobiology
 * 4) Natural history of life on Earth - Particularly Abiogenesis, Cryogenic Eon, the Cambrian explosion, the rise of Mammals, evolution of Carnivora and Creodonts, and most of all, the evolution of Homo sapiens.
 * Philosophy
 * The Mind, perception and consensus realities
 * Dualism and Subjective Idealism - "Some idealists, subjective idealists hold the view that there isn't one particular way things are, but rather that each person's personal reality is unique. Such idealists have the world view which says that we each create our own reality, and while most people may be in general agreement (consensus) about what reality is like, they might live in a different (or nonconsensus) reality." Wikipedia - It just seems obvious to me. We are not a hive mind, our brains must learn to sense the external world and thus all we see are ideas we developed.
 * Free will - I think we have free will, I don't believe in fate, yet I think we also live in very limited perception, body and mind. This could be expanded however.
 * Tibetan buddhism, Tao and Hindu philosophies on the mind and transcendance.
 * The universe
 * Many-worlds interpretation - The universe is decohered because we can only observe one branch of wavefunction in each "moment".
 * Mathematical universe/monism - I think we are mathematical systems, that "physical reality" is perception.
 * Mysticsm, esoteric and paranormal phenomena
 * Paranormal experiences (ghosts, time warps, orbs, poltergiests) - As I said, I'm open minded. I don't think Ghosts are the living dead, Like I said, I think peoples experiences can very well be real to them.  But what is "real", if we ultimatly live in our a worlds constructed of our own ideals?  Otherwise, I think paranormal phenomena can have scientific explanations, but its no good if no one bothers to investigate, thats no fun, and often, science paints a picture of an equally stranger world that any tales of legend and myth.  So yes, in many cases, I think the experiences do happen, but what I often doubt is the supernatural explanations for them.
 * Energy and magic - I believe in magic, but its a broad term that can be expressed through chemistry, technology, illusionism and even the very power of our minds. Since I think we live in bubble, expandable realities, I very much believe perception is the real power behind chi, prana and kundalini.  We are complex dynamical systems of energy, no not supernatural energy, very real, physical energy that has become self-aware consciousness.  I think we live outside our skin, as open systems we very much affect and are affected by the world around us.  We, and the entire biosphere is one great system.  There is also small scientific evidence of chi.  The Worlds Health Organisation classified the meridians, that must mean something.  Where the four-petaled Root chakra is supposed to be, there is the ganglion of nerves.
 * Meditation, expanding mind, occult powers, transcension, astral projection etc. - We can only observe the world through the filters of our minds, thus, if you can change the way the world can be percieved, I think we can greatly expand our abilities. This is where I think the super-human abilities of martial artists, and the "occult" powers of mystics come from.  I am actually very interested in researching as much accounts and footage of magic.
 * Ancient Aliens and lost civilisations - Whether or not Aliens did visit Earth is something I've not made my mind up upon, but, I often consider the fact that time and time again, we are finding evidence of long-vanished and possibly advanced civilisations.
 * UFO's - I really want to believe if the UFO hypothesis, and indeed a small percentage of reports are unexplainable and/or show more credible evidence than sceptics would admit. I think Alien civilisations could have the ability to come here.  But what puts me off the whole thing is that all that is unlikely why they might even talk to us.  What if they mistake cities as superorganisms, or abduct gut bacteria from Obama?  There could well be aliens with technology and wisdom beyond our wildest dreams, but I think they might be so alien space opera is unlikely, but who am I to say?
 * Cryptozoology - I believe in certain cryptids (less mundane ones I'm not so sure about). There are still very wild places on the Earth, sometimes evidence props up here and there.  I think the study of cryptids is important, they say we wipe out several species a day without even knowing so.  Cryptics do sometimes turn out to be real.  Finally, I've seen a Lynx in Wales (and had to talk to a member of the Police about it), a country where they should not exist, and there are still dumbass sceptics who think there are no Big Cats wondering the British Isles...
 * Other interests and activities
 * Quad biking - It was both scary and fun when I had to learn how to drive offroad.
 * Nature and the outdoors - I study countryside management, I go camping and mountain hiking, and I like studying habitats of the British Isles.
 * Indiginious peoples, primitive skills and survivalism - I always bring a survival kit when I go off to wild places, I like the programs by Ray Mears and Bear Grylls. I also like the different lifestyles and cultures adopted around the world.
 * Mineral collecting.
 * Geochaching.
 * Legends and folklore - Celtic, Norse, Hindu in particular.
 * Martial Arts and fitness.
 * Offroad cycling and bike races.
 * Star gazing and weather watching.
 * Abstract art.
 * Lego!
 * Photography.
 * Wiki's, collaborative fiction and image making.

Awesome people
Either their intertellect, will and mind power, dare devils, and interesting people.
 * Alain Robert - The "Human Spider", yet he has vertigo.
 * Albert Einstein
 * Arthur C. Clarke - Great visionary.
 * Alan Watts - Interesting British philosopher who found connections between modern science and eastern philosophy.
 * Bear Grylls - He was told he would never walk again after a parachute fail, but then he climbed Mount Everest and has a cool survival show, but if you ask me he does show off sometimes.
 * Bernhard Riemann - A mathematical genius.
 * Brian Cox
 * Brian Greene
 * Carl Sagan - Great populariser of science.
 * Colin Dawes - A paleontologist I know.
 * Dinomo Jack - Whether you choose to believe him or not is up to you.
 * Edward Leedskalnin - The man who built Coral Castle, from what he claimed were ancient techniques. He apparently used mysterious devices to move rock like balloons filled with hydrogen, although nearly always when people investigated him they found he had no advanced tools at all.  He made it for his fiancée Agnes Scuffs who left him before their wedding.
 * Gopi Krishna
 * Iceman (Wim Hof)
 * James Maxwell - Discovered the union of electrity and magnetism.
 * John Selby - Great Kundalini book.
 * John Wheeler
 * John Hutchinson - Underated inventor.
 * J.H.Brennan - Awesome books on mystiscm and magic.
 * Lawrence Blair - Explorer, adventurer, psycho-anthropologist, actor, director, uncovers myths and magic.
 * Michio Kaku
 * Nikola Tesla - So ahead of his time! Wireless electricity, lightning guns and so much more.
 * Patrick Moore - Has an atronomy show 50 years in the running. Met many great scientists.
 * Ray Mears - Another survival expert.
 * Rob Byranton
 * Roger Penrose - Very interesting theories.
 * Richard Dawkins
 * Srinivasa Ramanujan - Another giant of mathematics, who without formal training made talented contributions. He recieved some of his equations through visions of the goddess of Namagiri.
 * Stephen Hawking - Not just he theories, but his incredible superhuman will-power to live.
 * Stephen Baxter - My current favourite author.
 * Will Wright - He has some interesting ideas on stuff.

Favourite movies and TV series

 * Sci-fi - Hard
 * Bicentinnial Man
 * Equilibrium
 * Sunshine
 * Solaris
 * Moon
 * Primer
 * Kpax
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The year we made contact
 * Sci-fi - Soft
 * Avatar
 * Ghosts of Mars
 * All the Star Wars movies and spinoffs!
 * Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9. Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star TreK: First Contact, Star Trek: 2009
 * Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick
 * Stargate Sq1, Doctor Who Series 3 to 6, Babylon 5
 * Starship Troopers I, II, III
 * Mad Max Trilogy
 * Children of Men
 * Fantasy/surreal
 * Avatar Airbender
 * Donnie Darko!
 * The Lovely Bones
 * Lord of the Rings Trilogy
 * Excalibur
 * 300
 * Gladiator
 * Water World
 * Kung Fu Hustle
 * Boewulf
 * Phsycho thriller (or monster)
 * Predator
 * Jeepers Creepers
 * Zombie
 * Braindead
 * Black Sheep
 * Shaun of the Dead
 * Day of the Dead
 * Cowboy Western
 * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 * Other
 * Samurai Jack
 * White Fang
 * Balto
 * Eight Below
 * Iron Will
 * Borat, Bruno or Ali G
 * Kill Bill
 * Lion King
 * Good morning Vietnam
 * The Deer Hunter

Favourite books/audiobooks

 * Sci-fi - Hard
 * Xeelee Sequence
 * Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
 * Sci-fi - Soft
 * Star Wars Coruscant Nights series
 * Fantasy
 * Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
 * Power of the Five (or Gatekeepers)
 * Inheritance trilogy
 * Series of Unfortunate Events
 * White Fang
 * Secret Intelligence
 * Alex Rider
 * Other
 * Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
 * Dragonology

IRC nicks
Don't bother stealing them, when I go on IRC, people know whether its me or not. I often pick random names.
 * Wormy - My typical nick.
 * RETURNoftheWORM - After the IRC disconnects and sometimes reconnect into this nick.
 * Ambassador_Kosh - There is wisdom in his words, even if its a bit cryptic.
 * Frank_the_Bunny - Lol.
 * Im_the_Moon

Types of people Wormulon doesn't like
If you are one of these Wormulon probably doesn't like you.
 * 1) Dogooders/PC Brigade, Nanny State, Council officials - My number 1 foe. I hate you people, you are miserable f*s who spend their lives moaning and making other peoples lives a misery.  You can't stand to see people having fun even if there is a slight risk involved, because you think your judgement is golden.  You have ruined any sort of fun in my country, with your over-the top Health and Safety laws.  When you people trip over a curb you go and complain to the state when its your damn fault.  I had fun in the Tomatina festivel in Spain, but it would be impossible in the UK because of you lot.  I have you know, the reason why the our youth is so unsettled and riot is because they can't let of steam in more productive ways.  Certain council officials annoy me, like the type who fined this mother after her child dropped crumbs in a park, it was unjustified and just a way of making money.  I HATE YOU ALL.
 * 2) Close-minded, peccismistic, buzzkilling doubting tomasous - I don't dislike sceptiscm, but these kind of sceptics are stoopid. They believe they have a perfect view of how the world works.  People like these have caused a lot of trouble, including the extinction cryptozooligical species, because you don't think they exist, don';t help finding these elusive creatures and they die out.  Shame on you.  Optimists build worlds, peccimists don't.
 * 3) Those who hunt for sport (Fox hunting), and those who disrespect nature - For gods sake, if you are going to hunt an animal it should not be sport (survival or conservation maybe). You often make up stupid excuses for it as well.  I don't like people who vandalize or chuck rubbish at natural or historical places or objects either, you are sick and ruin for everyone else.  But of course, that is because you don't have a life.
 * 4) The Elite - The greedy people in control.
 * 5) Naccistic people - These kind of people can only see their own nose.
 * 6) Chavs - Got nothing to say here.
 * 7) Snobs and rich people who don't deserve their money or are up theor own areses.
 * 8) Fundementalists and ecowarriors - Fundementalists of anything I don't like, such as ecowarriors who hate humanity. Yes, we should respect nature but that doemn't mean Humans should be seen as evil.
 * 9) Dictators and manners of cruelty and evil.
 * 10) Trolls and many idiots comment on Youtube, as well as n00by kids who log into MMO's not for their age grroup and wine when they get killed every 5 seconds.
 * 11) People who think they are special and deserve special rights - You need re-education. Annoying parents who get in the way on purpose because they are with their child, old people who think they can have it all for free etc.
 * 12) User friends - Not to be confused with wiki users. These are people who pretend to be your friend but just use you as a service.

Basically, if you have read all this, all are examples of stuck up people.

My thoughts and rants on stuff
I feel like letting them out. They are probably just incorrect and a bunch of random crap put together.

How to build a universe
Steps to create a universe.
 * You will need: A high-mass star, quark matter, an inflaton nugget weighing about ten grams
 * Only if these theories are correct: Plancks Constant, Inflaton Theory, String Landscape Multiverse.
 * References: I took note from The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene, Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku and the story Planck Zero by Stephen Baxter.

The Big Bang itself was not a single event, it is an ongoing one. So when it comes to the ignition, where do we start?

First you need a nice warm soup of quarks. You do this by melting matter by tremendous temperatures, such as colliding heavy nuclei (you should siphon them from a star first to get enough), or simply drain it from a neutron or quark star's core. At a certain temperature, the nucleons that define baryonic matter melt into their constituent quarks and gluons. Increase the temperature a little more, and three of the four forces of nature are unified into a superforce. Don't cheer yet, there is a lot more steps to to go. Eventually you will reach the planck temperature at 1032 Kelvin. At this point, conventional physics break down. This is perhaps the most complicated and tricky step. Plancks Constant is a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, it dictates the values of particles (and thus the atomic structure that binds matter). According to the uncertainty principle, particle themselves are not discrete points of their values, they are waves, the wave defining their planck values. An important feature of the Uncertainty principle is that a quantum particle such as an electron has a wavefunction that is spread over a small volume rather than in one place. You can observe the position of the particles wavefunction, however, it is impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particles wavefunction, it can only be one or the other. The size of these volumes is governed by Plancks Constant.
 * Step One: Quark soup
 * Step Two: Reducing Plancks Constant

What must be done in the quark soup you have created is to reduce these planck volumes. If they are reduced enough, then both the position and momentum of a particles wavefunction can be observed at once, a violation of a fundamental law which defines reality. Because the laws of physics break down at planck temperatures, this could be possible. As the quark soup begins to cool you can begin to control the ratios. Now it begins to get dangerous in two ways...

At the moment you have a small ball of cooling quark matter, make no attempt to touch the inside. Plancks constant has changed, the electrons might not bind the atomic structures in your hand, making them crumble, plus the kinetic energy distributed on the surface of the bubble would probably create a shockwave that would disintergrate you. But the bubble isn't a universe yet.
 * Step Three: The Inflaton field and some dangers

As the modified superforce soup cools (which it will do very quickly I might add), there will be an initial particle, the inflaton (should the theory be correct that is). The inflaton will roll down its energy curve, as it does, creating new particles, roughly 1089 (of each) photons, electrons, neutrons, protons, neutrinos and their anti-matter counterparts within the expanding inflaton field. Where do these particles magically emerge from? Gravity itself. Gravity actually has a infinite well of energy for the seed to inflate. Extracting the gravitational energy the bubble of false vacuum begins to expand. It starts weighing less than ten grams yet being 1067 times as dense as an atomic nucleus. It would be about 10-26 centimeters across, making it very small. But it will expand rapidally.

What happens next is guesswork. You could have destroyed the universe, or at least the current state, not only re-writing the values of matters constituents but also destroying the uncertainty principle, shattering quantum physics. However, we might be lucky. Hopefully, a different process might occur. The expanding seed would have negative outward pressure and positive energy, but ordinary spacetime outside would have almost or perhaps exactly zero pressure, which is much larger than negative pressure. But inflaton still needs to expand. Where will it go? The inflationary bubble would grow into its own domain. Its hard to imagine this process, don't bother, all you would see would be a black hole, where its gravitational well had pinched off of our universe.
 * Step Four: The detatchment process

As it expands into its own space, its dimensions will unravel. The shape of the dimension would determine what the universe would be like. When its shape is formed the baby universe will find its part of the landscape of universes (the String Landscape). There is thought to be 10500 different types of universe, perhaps only a few allow for intelligent life, perhaps others house different things of complexity. Either way, there would be no way to know whether you have created a universe which can support life, or a universe which might quickly die, or something else entirely. It might be like this universe, there might be lots of quantum versions of this baby universe, one just like this that are created as well. If the universe begins to re-write itself, don't panic, stay calm. The star you used for Step One could be given a noble death. The inflating seed might fall into its core, because Plancks constant would change the Pauli Exculsion Principle which causes the star to not implode on itself. Without this principle, the core will implode. The implosion would create a black hole, which would enveloupe the false vacuum, either destroying it or also causing it to expand into a new universe.
 * Step Four again: If all goes wrong

In either case, there is no way to contact your universe, not unless you somehow threaded a wormhole to it or are capable of fantastic technological feats. You go home to your family or friends. You eat your dinner, if you even have any of them, considering you might have sold your home to make up for the budget and your relatives and allies have not left you. But you know, content, that you have a one in 10500 chance of creating a universe exactly like this one.


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My thoughts about immortality
I don't believe in true immortality, I think its as impossible as a a self-flowing flask, we live in a universe in which energy becomes less and less usable as systems become more and more chaotic. While I would like to live a very long life, I would not like to live a truly immortal one. There are lots of types of immortality, I will skip over the technological versions, and while they may grant you a long life (even very long), I do not think true immortality is possible as neither are fail proof. All of the forms above are life extending possibilities, but none, assure complete safety from death. In the first, "genetic therapy", to increase the lifetime of cells by replcacing the lost DNA as they divide. In a way., cells commit suicide, for if they could do this they would be cancerous. Cancer cells are immortal, that is why they are so dangerous. But as the cells divide naturally the genetic information of which we humans are becomes more and more corrupted, this is why we age. Proposed methods of "genetic therapy" and extreme lifestyle choices can indeed slow aging, perhaps in the fature using nanotechnology almost to a standstill. This is an exciting prospect. But A)this procedure must be carefully handled, get it wrong, and you could make yourself very ill, B) there is huge philosophical issue here. Every seven years or so it is said that most of our cells would have completely regenerated, even the atoms inside them. But the genetic information (what I call the genetic soul) remains, but getting ever corrupted (aging). If genetic immortality is applied, how much does the individual change information-wise? In five centuries, five-hundred centuries even, does the person forget who they were? In this case, immortality becomes an oxymoron because the original evolves into someone or something else. Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?
 * Types of immortality
 * "Genetic therapy"
 * "Digital immortality", mind uploads and cybernetics.
 * Breeding immortality
 * Cryogenics
 * Lifestyle

Then there is "digital" immortality. It is unknown how consciousness could be transferred, but it is thought that the "uploads" would be copies. The original mind isn't transferred in this view. The copies may feel like you, but are they you? The same goes for clones, who probably woudn't share your personality anymore than an identical twin at best.

If we remember the above statement "Then again, if the consciousness doesn't know this, then did it die?", perhaps slow replacement of immortal nanotechnology could create a copy of the original mind that didn't experience death.

There are lots more less known proposed techniques, but neither offer any clean unchaging immortality, all except for one, quantum immortality, but currently that is merely a thought experiment.
 * Unhealthy for society

Thin line between the Mind and Physical
See my journal.

The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide
No offense to Mocha, this would catch out many, including me perhaps.
 * [22:47]  masses even
 * [22:47]  solar masses
 * [22:48]  SOLAR MASSES.
 * [22:48]  Yes
 * [22:48]  Solar Mass
 * [22:48]  I know what that is.
 * [22:49]  I KNOW WHAT EVERYTHING IS MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
 * [22:49]  Pi to 5,734,621 places then
 * [22:49]  okay...
 * [22:49]  3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
 * [22:49]  XD
 * [22:49]  darn it...
 * [22:50]  that WAS five million seven hundred thirty four thousand six hundred twenty one though...
 * [22:50]  before they took all of it away...
 * [22:50]  :(
 * [22:51] <Wormy> Name me how many possible configurations of Inflatonary universes are in current understanding.
 * [22:51] <Mocha2007> okay...one second...
 * [22:51] <Wormy> Based on the topology of braneworlds
 * [22:51] <Xho> Wow, the core of that massive explosion.....
 * [22:51] <Xho> Still 8900 AU
 * [22:52] <Xho> -87 K still
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> MANY.
 * [22:52] <Xho> 739628 light years
 * [22:52] <Wormy> The number?
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> calculating...
 * [22:52] <Xho> -_-
 * [22:52] <Mocha2007> by the way you mispelled a word.
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Yes
 * [22:53] <Wormy> But it doesn't bother me
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> 7, depending on the model.
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Its 10 to the power of 500 at the very least.
 * [22:53] <Xho> Fail
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Is dihydrogen monoxide dangerous? No googleing it.
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> I used a different model.
 * [22:53] <Xho> hur
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> NO ITS WATERR!!!
 * [22:53] <Mocha2007> DUH!!!
 * [22:53] <Wormy> Wrog
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Wrong
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Water is dangerous
 * [22:54] <Xho> Trolololol
 * [22:54] <Wormy> Hur