Quantum archaeology describes the emerging idea of resurrecting dead people - including their memories - from corrupted, lost, insufficient or non-existent data.

It is a determinist hypothesis of cause and effect consistent with the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Theory plus probability science.

The data of a person who died long ago doesn't have to exist any more - there just have to be ways to figure it out. We can find and calculate causal and probabilistic pathways to what must have been. The physical makeup of a person can be expressed as data sets, and these can be calculated for any time in the past. Drawing space-time coordinates by statistical techniques, it may be possible to calculate backwards as there are more events in the present than past, so cross-checking from other event pathways can give us accurate maps of history in astounding detail.

Our particular universe is an interrelated system. What happens in the north affects what happens in the south, and some particles affect each other instantly with almost unbelievable symmetry across incredible distances, although we dont understand how they are connected yet. 

Time is not the issue in physics as it is in the normal world. In physics time is the relationship between events, and movement and distances are ways of describing the forces of energy affecting them. It doesn't matter when a person died, what matters is whether we have enough processing power or maths to do the calculations accurately describing them. These calculations are too big to do at present, but may eventually be done probabilistically.

In the coming computers, massive calculations will be easier and we can enter the mathematics as inflatable symbolism. We even have a maths for infinities! Every bit of a person's life -  including their most private thoughts - are going to be drawn by quantum archaeologists. Once we have a map of a person we will resurrect them robotically when our technology is ready. Scientists believe that may be about 2045.

It doesn't matter if this takes a hundred billion years.... the dead are in no hurry! However we can say what computing power will be needed to construct accurate history maps of the past, because we already have an idea about how to do it and maps with hundreds of billions of moving variables (New World Simulation 2011).

Predicting how computing is advancing, and what we need, we guess that in 20-40 years we'll be able to map anything that has ever lived on earth down to their atoms.

This paper attempts to show that nothing of a long dead person need still remain and yet a complete map of their brain and body can be drawn by retrodiction from present events. Then it will attempt to show that coming quantum robots will physically resurrect them.

As we gain mastery over the quantum world, we can learn to create or gather quantum information. Groups of thinkers are examining the line of logic on this, testing what is known to be possible in science against what is expected to be possible as our machines improve.

It makes makes no assumption that we'll be able to mine information from from the past light cone of the universe, although it will attempt that as well, but it is about using the information in the present to figure out what detailed events in the past must have been

It is the deliberate reconstruction of data from the past, to recreate persons, places, things and relationships using probabilities and classical cause and effect to retrodict  and rebuild people back to life: at first as detailed mapping, and then reassembling atoms.

There are many starting points. A person's memory is their raw DNA neuron growth, altered by the events that happen to them which cause memory, both epigenetically and by RNA changes. Memories are built by physically determined lawful reactions to previous events, and we will attempt to reconstruct everyone who has ever lived to full youthful health: that man who lived near you; that boy who was killed in an accident; that old woman you once knew; all the soldiers killed; all the babies who died at birth; it seems only a matter of enough computing power for the present is littered with effects of earlier causes and these can surely be traced back.

Computing power increases by predictable amounts annually and we should have enough by 2030 to achieve first results and operational by 2045.

THE QUESTIONS

The controversial debate in transhumanism, challenges long held beliefs and considers the limits of archaeology.

• How far can a reconstruction of the past go?
  


• How small must measurement be to reassemble every detail relevant to a deceased person?


• To the cell? To the mitochondria? To the atom? To the superstring?


• How accurately can we plot history? To living memories? Further?
  


• If we cant retrieve the data, can we construct it by a probability matrix - a sort of quantum archaeology grid of all relevant past events?

For generations men have said 'If there's one thing certain - it's death."  But is this still true as archaeology accelerates, reconstructing more and more artifacts?  We could reassemble ruins, then we could reassemble artifacts, then we could reassemble bones & skeletons, and recently full facial reconstructions of people dead for thousands of years have been reassembled. Done by probability, these are provably so accurate that their friends would instantly recognize them. What is to stop archaeology...assuming science and technology progresses...from reviving a living person and their memories? And if we can do one person...what's to stop us resurrecting them all?

Why shouldn't death be reversible like any other causal process? We can turn ice to water and water back to ice, and we can break and re-form complex molecules with greater speeds and at diminishing costs, stealing energy from different sources to make up for entropy or information loss.

Why couldn't we do that with deceased mankind?

I will show in this paper that some species have already evolved ways to live forever, and Man may evolve to that.

Here are some ideas on how attempts to resurrect the dead may become possible using things like engineering technologies, science, mathematics and statistics.

CAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RAISE THE DEAD?

We think so.  Most of it can be done using classical physics, and if there's any left to do, we'll use quantum physics. Huge advances in probability means we can accurately construct prototype people for any era in history and the skill is to reconfigure their brains using environment construction and cross-referencing. Quantum archaeology can try to sketch ideas for theories of how to describe the living past in detail plotting multi-dimensionally on what we've initially called the quantum archaeology grid.

For the quantum archaeologist this has to be accurate enough to reconstruct any given person and their memories which means the scales have to be between 1 atom and 1 human body in size, generally, and extend to groups of people as upper limits and the quantum particles as lower. Grids are used in classical archaeology to describe and monitor geographical dig sites so that nothing is lost and relationships of artifacts can be used for reassembly. In quantum archaeology a grid is a set of dimensional timelines, a sort of fish tank with events drawn in as they are discovered or configured. This enables inevitable lines to be drawn from intersections called events, to establish other events by geometry. Although is an enormous undertaking and much must be done by hand, computerization is coming by which we can scan and configure more than trillions of events at once.

If we succeed, anyone who has ever died will be describable on the quantum archaeology grid, to be resurrected to life with coming quantum robots.

This is not fanciful, the techniques are already in their infancy and will germinate in the lifetime of people already born.

People have common ancestors so they surely must have common timelines.

When traced back, each would give the same result - enough information to construct a complete map of a deceased person, good enough for robots to resurrect them. What  techniques could be used to map our ancestors?  What scientific barriers are there to mapping everyone who has ever lived?  How many are there? How far back should we go? When is someone a man or something else? Where would everyone be put? What are the legal and ethical concerns? When could we be technologically advanced enough to do it? How will it be done? Will the rich raise ancestors leaving the poor with no histories? How much would a resurrection cost and should the State pay for it?

With only our present retrodictive measuring abilities, human memory seems lost at death. Because the brain looks closed off from the rest of the world it wasn't thought possible that once destroyed it could ever be recreated. The brain seemingly had mystical powers that prevented it being rebuilt by probability axioms!

Quantum archaeology posits that the brain and its neurons are no different from anything else in the world - subject to the same laws - growing, changing and decaying by absolute laws of physics, and a past brain is but a composition of a set of historical events.

The brain is a particular system that using its genetic inheritance, codes  data from the outside world to form, and is to some extent a reflection of that environment. It is a wet machine. Supercomputer simulations may eventually be able to replicate life and history in such detail it may be indistinguishable from reality. Human brain and past human brains may be available in computer programmers, and as processing power factors up, ANY human brain that could ever have existed may be simulable in a desktop computer.

Quantum robots will be able to build people once lost in history from minutely accurate maps using coming technologies like 3D printing, and these will be indistinguishable from the real thing. Whether that is a resurrection or not is moot, and this essay discuses identity later on.

Quantum robots will be much smaller than this sketch of a nanobot  cleaner amongst blood cells.

Cause and effect, and probability,  are the two great tools of science that allow measurement and prediction. We are using them to construct mathematics to map the past, and are building systems to peer into the quantum world and manipulate it. In coming years we expect to have consummate mastery of the very small, as we do of the medium big. Once manipulation of the quantum world is achieved, resurrection may be much easier. Archaeology is converging with quantum physics to recover astounding details of information thought long lost.

Archaeologist Howard Carter recovered the mummy of  Tutankhamen 1922

Quantum theory is slowly being decoded giving us increased mastery of the very small. Quantum archaeologists guess people and their brains & memories from the past will be mapped for reassembly and some theory of reconstruction is inevitable. For the dead it doesn't matter when this happens as only a few seconds will elapse in subjective time between death and revival. Piece by piece, line by line, check point by check point, recovery will be done by Man's machines and these will be more intelligent than the whole of civilization and Man ever was. Smarter machines are built every year, and when they can process 10^40 operating points per second, they will be many times more intelligent than mankind and capable of simulating whole worlds. On present trends that will arrive in 20-40 years.

Advancing trends are too clear to need to need to argue them here. The rate of progress is accelerating on a double logarithmic exponential. The acceleration of technology is itself accelerating. We see evidence every day amused  and little alarmed. An Olympic prosthetic leg, an electronic book with a million texts, a smaller quantum particle, a smaller microchip; 3D printing, nano-machines inside human cells, holograms, invisibility cloaks, prototype brain chip melts, and we expect them to keep getting better, smaller, cheaper and more innovative! They will become 'indistinguishable from magic' and the trends are actually much faster than human intuition can comprehend. Advances we intuit must be 100 years away will be upon us in 20. 10,000 years of progress at today's pace will be done in only 100. You can see this on graphs of accelerating change.

Our statistics and mathematics will be done by machine intelligences, and this is especially true for the maths of probabilities. We first calculate what MUST have happened, and then assemble as many confirmation checks as we need to pronounce with certainty, throwing out the impossible, reducing and refining until only one possible history remains. This is good for law cases arguing by deduction and it is good for quantum archaeology carefully sifting the evidence by vast statistical calculations.

QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY IS BASED ON KNOWN LAWS.

The Many-worlds interpretation has returned the cosmos to cause and effect.

Einstein famously refused to accept a quantum theory where Cause and Effect were thrown away, but died before the Many Worlds Theory was published: "The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.”  he wrote, “Everything is determined…It is determined for the insect as well as for the star."  Quantum Theory  may be irrelevant for reconstructing most human sizes which are generally from the ion to the body and it may be we can do most of the work statistically, at classical levels.

“Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.” Albert Einstein.

Thoughts were deemed special, and the brain inaccessible, but it is subject to the same laws of cause and effect as everything else. If Darwin was an affront to the uniqueness of Man, quantum archaeology affronts it more by suggesting we can make living copies of dead people and they would be the same as them.

THE ISSUES

If we can reconfigure the events around people during their lives in a quantum archaeology grid, and we reconfigure things like their DNA, we are going to be able to reconfigure their entire memories in supercomputers and physically resurrect them to youthful, disease-free bodies with coming quantum robots. Quantum robots, theoretically buildable, are tiny robots that carry quantum computers on their backs and set off into the quantum worlds to do their work.

Until recent times the calculations involved might have been fantastic, but computers and mathematics are hurtling forward in a stampede of invention.

We have probably past the level of quanta we need for resurrections.

The advent of atomic physics into archaeology began with radiocarbon dating in 1949. Complex formulas configure the date of once living artifacts by measuring sub atomic particle change over time.

Probabilistic measurements are worked out unveiling the ages of bones, teeth, and many objects whose age had only been guessed at before. 

"When radiocarbon dating came in it allowed for the first time ....the establishing of chronologies for different things in different places...it wasn't possible to have a world prehistory until radiocarbon dating was established...it was a turning point...because until that time much of the work of archaeologists had to go into the establishing of chronologies." Baron Renfrew (2008)

It is a fantastic tool for archaeologists, but it's nothing to what's coming! Each discovery of a new technique brings the possibility of more precision, enabling checkpoints of reference from which to draw a huge grid of our past in wondrous and minute detail that those outside the field might think impossible. This probabilistic assembling of facts, each step nothing special of itself, when combined looks like supernatural powers!

Hundreds more techniques at quantum levels will arrive as we construct cumulatively more accurate maps of deceased people. It doesn't matter to the dead how long it takes.

At some stage in our quickening future we will have enough skill to describe anyone who has ever lived, calculating astronomically big equations even past their genomic levels , making descriptions of entire bodies, memories and worlds.

Resurrection of the dead is becoming scientifically possible.

This is the aim of quantum archaeology - to raise everyone who has walked the earth. To restore them to full youth, improved facilities, and full memory. As you sketch a chart of what needs to happen to achieve this the most remarkable thing is that no-one had thought of it before. Or had they?

Mathematics, reconstruction theory, mass forensics, probability, retrodiction, statistics,  biology, chemistry, physics and a host of other disciplines are merging with accelerating computing to provide tools of simulation beyond the dreams of power and wealth.

THE ARGUMENT

Quantum Archaeology - (Quantum Archeology) also known as quantum resurrection quantum information retrieval and resurrection science, is a controversial and emerging pre-science idea about process technologies using coming hypercomputing and  mathematical methods. Statistics probability, and number crunching are increasingly specific in assisting archaeological retrodiction, plotting detailed maps of our ancestors, and with enough computing power are likely to be able to describe their memories, and resurrect them.

The cosmos is governed by causal laws, even at the tiniest levels: and where there are laws, predictions can follow.

As artificial intelligence advances into technology, more machine help will be coming on line. Quantum Archaeology can be an independent field with enough identity to make it a valid academic discipline and ask serious questions.

What are the limits to manipulating matter? How accurately will we be able to trace minute details of the past? Is it possible, someday, to make our machines reconstruct anyone who has ever lived? Could we calculate how to (and then actually rebuild) anyone to full, youthful health and with all their ancient memories intact? Quantum Archaeology theorizes we can and is drafting the details to do it.