I was born October 17, 1951 near Grenoble, in the southeastern part of France. As a youth, I was in poor health, so my studies were rather chaotic. Using evening courses, I managed to get two years University (official) education. I work in Paris for the French postal service. I am single. The only advantage in my work is that I can incur some debts and buy some real estate properties. I rent them and when, next year the loans will be fully repaid I'll be able to live without work.

When in Grigny, near Paris, my main hobby is reading science papers, mostly from the ArXiv server. When I can get some free time, I go back to Romans in southeast France where I have a large dusty garage full of strange tools: The biggest mirror polishing machine in the amateur astronomy world, able to work with 2 m (80") mirrors. A "pizza oven" able to cook glass plates 1 m in diameter at the critical transition temperature near 674 degree C.

Problems: The oven needs 12KW of electricity and the garage owner allows me only 3 KW. I don’t have the room to test a large mirror nor the money to buy the raw glass disk ($200,000 apiece). I have another polishing machine in the making for special materials (graphite) but I need a lathe to complete it. I have no room to put one here.

I plan on buying half an acre in an industrial area to move all that old dust to a larger building. Here I could build a large kiln to make my own 80" glass disks.

I could also use the pizza oven here to cast aluminum. I need 1,000 lbs pressure containers to test the high-pressure cryogenics hyperpolarized helium-3 technology.

I’m trying to interest a French lab working on He-3 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the cryo version for high definition pictures (100nm). If all goes OK, a first brain scan at this resolution could be at hand 3 - 4 years from now.

At start, data processing may be a bottleneck. For the next system, using an intensity interferometer, I’ll start with light in the astronomy domain. I have been in communication with the head of the optical laboratory at The Laval University in Quebec. The next step is to use a phonon based system and have a brain scanner working at small molecule resolution., it could work with either: phaser (giga Hertz phonons) or saser (tera Hertz phonons) systems.

I am interested in these technologies because they would both: allow uploading and assess damage to be corrected by some repair system. 3 or 4 brain scanners need to be built:

1/One using magnetic resonance imaging with hyperpolarized helium-3 under pressure and low temperature. This system is slow, cumbersome and has a limited resolution in the 100 nm range. It is the simplest and only way we can derive in a short time scale the works under way in different laboratories.

2/The use of phonons (sound quasi-particles) allows a better resolution, down to the nanometer scale. Drawbacks are: Slow system, low temperature, building back pictures with four-wave interferometry (intensity interferometry). The electronics and software parts can be tested on an astronomical instrument and so, the astronomical community can contribute to the development project. The phonon part must be built separately.

3/Using entanglement produced by a narrow space between mirrors, an interferometer scanner could be built using microwaves. It would be fast, work at room temperature... and produce enormous radiation damages. Interesting to recover broken DNA from fossils and coal for example.
4/A similar system, using X-rays with quantum non-demolition technology would solve the radiation problem, this technology is 30 years from now with a vigorous R&D program. Cost may be in the billions.

Well all of that has a cost, so I plan on buying an area near a railway station to build some underground park lots. They are in dire need here and can be sold $15,000 each. I hope to make 50 of them in the coming two years, maybe not alone, if someone is interested in that project. I'll build them from pre- fabricated concrete slabs made at the Romans site. (If you need money in the coming two years, there is room for more building work, the market is 500 - 700 lots, $800 to buy the land and $2,000 in building work/park lot. 400% return on 2.5 yrs).

As you see, I plan to cease to work...

How cryonics is seen in my environment: My mother’s attitude is "why not", but she is very dubious about the possibility to recover. My uncle is quite against it and firmly for cremation. For my friends or work mates, this is at best a crazy idea.

I have some contact from time to time with Mr. J. Saby, whose mother is a patient at CI. I think the cryonics attitude in France could be improved if some authorities in the official research establishment could support it. That is one more reason to make some links with MRI researchers. Given that the current French government has slashed the research budget by 30% this year (something not seen in the past sixty years), they are in dire need to find exterior funds, if not, 90% of French labs will be closed 2 years from now. May be the car park project came just in time...

Moving? If the current projects take-off, may be in some years I'll need a small flat somewhere in the US or Canada.

Yvan Bozzonetti Azt28@aol.com

Azt28@aol.com