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William Bains
Senior Associate, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

Sara Seager
Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, MIT

Dimitar Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

Frank Tipler
Mathematical Physicist and Cosmologist, Tulane University
Frank is a mathematical physicist who predicts that in trillions of years from now, there will be a point, the Omega Point, when humanity, the universe and God unite.

Aubrey de Grey
Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation
Aubrey is an expert on extreme longevity and believes that with medical inventions currently being developed, many people who are born today could live to be 1,000 years old and remain physically young.

Valter Longo
Biologist/Professor of Gerontology, USC
Valter is a biologist and professor of gerontology and he has created a strain of yeast fungus that can live for 10 weeks or more, rather than dying at its usual age of just one week.

Vlatko Vedral
Physicist, Oxford University
Vlatko is a quantum physicist who is calculating how we might be able to download our brains onto a quantum computer, leading him to wonder if the entire universe might just be a quantum computer.

Stephen Hsu
Theoretical Physicist, University of Oregon
Stephen is an expert on wormholes and has done extensive research into whether a wormhole could be stable and predictable enough to handle a faster than light journey through the universe.

Steven Olmschenk
Quantum Physicist, University of Maryland
Steve is one of the first physicists to teleport atomic information from one side of his lab to the other.

Sean Carroll
Theoretical Physicist, Cal Tech
Sean is an expert on the way the universe behaves and Einstein's laws of relativity.

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