"Ideal sleep": freeze a person as in "Star Wars" what the consequences (photo)

This fictional metal, created on the basis of carbon, hardened around the cosmic smuggler as cooling, and thus solo was in a state of "perfect sleep". In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Although carbonite is a fictional material, Alex Baker, a chemist at the University of Voric, believes that the Star Wars scene is not completely fantastic.

The scientist says that people can be frozen in the same way as Khan Solo. In the real world, liquid nitrogen and solid carbon dioxide, ie carbon dioxide, are so -called cryogen. These are substances that can be used to freeze objects such as human eggs. So far, cryogenes are suitable for freezing small objects, and so far they do not allow freezing the whole person to freeze the whole person. But there is a metal that can help.

Halley is a liquid metal that becomes solid as soon as the temperature drops below 29. 76 degrees Celsius. Studies have shown that Galium can be used to store small and very primitive organisms such as round worms. Worms can be dehydrated, and they fall into a state of a kind of anabiosis when they lose almost all water. Then the worms are stored in a liquid cool, and in about a week, worms can live again, as before, after Galium made liquid again.

To recreate the scene from "Star Wars" with a man in Galia, Baker proposes to use a giant form for ice cubes about two meters in size. This will be enough to fit a person. This form should be filled with liquid galium and then cooled to harden it. When the experiment is over, the temperature will have to be raised, as in the stage from the third movie of the original trilogy "Star Wars" called "Return of Jedi".

In the movie, Khan Solo is released from carbonitis and suffers only from short -term side effects: chills and temporary blindness. But, unfortunately, this comparison with the movie is likely to end, because there is very little chance that a person will survive after such freezing. According to Baker, people are more complex organisms than worms, and therefore a person will die during the dehydration process. Dehydration immerses the worms into a state of anabiosis, they stop doing anything.

But this cannot be done with humans because water is an integral part of life and all chemical reactions in our body. The scientist says that the frozen in the Galia of a person would have ended oxygen fairly quickly, and she would have died in "her own carbon dioxide in a metal tomb. " We remind that the original trilogy of George Lucas "Star Wars" consists of the films "New Hope" (1977), "The Empire strikes in response" (1980) and "Return of Jedi" (1983).

These films have made a very big impact on contemporary fantasy. Interestingly, the first movie in the Star Wars Universe is only a fourth part in this story. And the real first part came only in 1999 under the name "The Ghost Threat. " It is this and two other films in 2002 and 2005 that they explain what happened in the distant-daleics of the galaxy for the history presented in the 1977 film.