Tag: Immortality

In Chinese mythology, there are five islands in the Bohai Sea, inhabited by immortal beings who have discovered the elixir of life. Many have searched for the islands, but no one have yet found them. I came close, however, four years ago this very week, when I travelled deep into the Nevada desert, ...

Sunlight streamed through the window, casting bright lines on the old dressing table where Aria sat. She noticed the fine lines around her eyes, which her grandmother used to call “laughter lines.” But today, they felt more like reminders of her 68 years, marking the passage of time on h...

While this may confine a human’s dream of immortality to solutions that rely on technological enhancements or science-fiction level technology that relies on novel physical laws and/or phenomena, there’s still plenty for relativity to say about living forever: at least, relative to the r...