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martillo
I need comments from people with deeper knowledge in biology about something posted in the "Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, New Theories" Forum:

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John Galt Posted: Yesterday at 7:06 PM Report this post · Quote


Martillo,
let's start at the beginning. It appears to me that your primary claim - the physics of the universe is flawed - can only be true if the universe was designed. Is it your opinion that the universe was designed? Your linked essay seems to indicate you do believe this, but because English is not your native language it is not clear.

Thank you.
JG


martillo Posted: Yesterday at 11:39 PM Report this post · Quote


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let's start at the beginning. It appears to me that your primary claim - the physics of the universe is flawed - can only be true if the universe was designed. Is it your opinion that the universe was designed? Your linked essay seems to indicate you do believe this, but because English is not your native language it is not clear.


Yes I believe in some intelligent design (although I don't know exactly how that begun) but the intelligences which I think developed the Universe no way matches with the concept of "Gods" in Religion and in Phylosophy because in both is considered totally knowgeadble and totally powerfull entities. They are capable of doing everything and even go against the Laws of Physics sometimes and also capable to determine everything that could happen to anyone of us at any moment and at any place! Even in the dictionary is hold someway this concept of "Gods" and there is a main problem. I think was Descartes who was asked if he believed in "God" and he asked back to define to him what would be understood by "God" and then he would tell if he would believe or not.
I believe in some "Primordial Intelligences" specifying the Physics Laws of the Universe to create an ideal Universe with ideal Worlds with ideal beings to live an ideal life following a main principle "The purpose of the existence is to enjoy life".
Unfortunatelly something haven't gone wrong since the begining and life could only grow under very "hard" (harmfull) conditions and in a non ideal way. Actually we are living some kind of Hell (with some things we could enjoy of course but at the end a Hell) with very harmfull radiation present. Any atom can absorb several small photons and spontaneously emit a big photons times to times breaking some organic molecule of our bodies! (even our own atoms of our own molecules can do that).
I identify the problem in the Physics of the Universe particularly in the real running value of some parameter(s) (the specifications should be right but they would be different from the real values).

That's what makes sense to me even with the lack of all the proofs. And so it's my faith. I have faith but not religion. There's no religion that satisfies my faith.

I think is an original very different point of view that makes many things have sense.
As I said this viewpoint/paradigm is not expressed in current religions, Phylosophies, scientific approach and not even in literature and movies. I don't understand why it is ausent. I mean that something could be wrong in the Universe, something could have gone wrong in its creation and we could could help detecting, analyzing, finding ways to correct/fix it finally and make possible a new much more "pleasant" World and life.



John Galt Posted: Today at 6:35 AM Report this post · Quote



Thank you for your reply. I have comments and questions in three areas.

First, a minor point. You have spoken several times about small photons and big photons. I hope you are aware that all photons are the same 'size'. I imagine you mean that the energy of photons can be different. Is that the case?

Second, as others have pointed out, mutations generated by radiation have likely been partly responsible for evolution. If you argue that these are bad, are you also arguing that evolution is bad?

Thirdly, you are quite honest in stating you believe this hypothesis based on faith not facts. What observations/studies/research might be made to find facts that would support your belief?


Thank you for asking a good question and I will show you something really good to think about.


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First, a minor point. You have spoken several times about small photons and big photons. I hope you are aware that all photons are the same 'size'. I imagine you mean that the energy of photons can be different. Is that the case?



Well, actually I'm talking about photons of different energies but they also have different sizes. Unexpectedly more energetic photons are smaller in size. To understand this you would have a "long" way studying my site... (not so easy).


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Second, as others have pointed out, mutations generated by radiation have likely been partly responsible for evolution. If you argue that these are bad, are you also arguing that evolution is bad?


No, evolution is not bad, is natural and necessary. I think in two kinds of evolution: "horizontal evolution" and "vertical evolution". To survive under changing enviromental conditions "horizontal evolution" happens, to develop complex beings starting from simple ones "vertical evolution" happens.
Of course the harmfull radiation of "too big photons" had a big impact in the evolution of all the beings in our World and with the Darwininan "natural selection" mechanism taking place but I believe that not only that mechanism was and is present. Actually the two kinds of evolutions would happen anyway in the abscence of the "too big photons" for life to be developed in dynamical Worlds.


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Thirdly, you are quite honest in stating you believe this hypothesis based on faith not facts. What observations/studies/research might be made to find facts that would support your belief?


Thank you for asking a good question and I will show you something really good to think about.

The central point is that too energetic photons (with energies above that of the deep blue color of light) can break organic molecules particularly those that compose living beings organisms what can cause undesirable mutations, all types of cancer, aging and death. Note that I subtly include aging. Yes I'm considering that aging actually happens just due to the "too big photons" present. I mean if they would not exist "natural aging" would not exist and death would be rare (may be by accidents only) and rare and very special would be the borning of a new being in the World (not like now that for example womans came pregnant even don't wanting to).
Yes I'm talking about possible "ethernal youth" but not with some miraculous "saint grial" or "source of youth". I'm talking about a change in the Physics of the Universe. I'm talking about a totally different kind of existence and life.
Now coming back to your question: "What observations/studies/research might be made to find facts that would support your belief?"
The fact that too energetic photons do break organic molecules is already known and we can easily find information on the web just searching for ultra-violet or even more energetic radiation effects. It is known that they can even produce DNA mutations. May be further studies are needed to realize that many other essential molecules of cells are affected by ultra-violet radiation causing "cell deterioration" (I mean malfunction). I have already heard on TV that one of the causes of aging being considered by some scientists is that DNA "deteriorate" through time while cells reproduce and I follow this line of reasoning but going further and looking for a possible cause of that deterioration. I consider that the presence of the "too big photons" is the real cause. But not only DNA deterioration in cells' reproduction is the cause of aging. The too energetic photons also affect directly many parts of the cells causing their malfunction.
The other line of research I think would be needed is to verify that too energetic photons (above deep blue color) are produced spontaneously by any atom (organisms' atoms and environment's atoms) under normal conditions without any external source of them (in the abscenece of external radiation). I mean even in a submarine under thje deep sea we would find those photons (may be just as some "background radiation noise").
Unfortunatelly what cannot be verified experimentally is how life could be in the abscence of the too energetic photons. Wecannot construct a lab where they would not be present because as I say they can come from any environment and from inside any organism.
I think that just logic and some imagination can do the rest.

Thank for your important questions.
Please consider on thing: I'm not infallible (by the way I make mistakes everyday...) and adjustments could be necessary on what I think, say and write.

You know religions state The Universe and Nature is perfect created by a perfect "God" and that we are guilty of everything wrong happening to us. Current Science someway agrees with this point of view saying the Universe, Nature and the Physics laws are perfect the way they are.
I take a more positive and productive position thinking that the Universe could not be perfect, life could not be perfect this way and that something could be done to change everything just working and researching in the right direction.
We humans cannot change the Physics Laws but "Primordial Intelligences" that could be called "Gods" could. For Science to have a right approach it must not discard the intervention of some kind of "superior intelligences" in the Universe particularly capable of make changes in the Physics Laws.
jimdean
I suppose in theory one could, with extensive research and investment, build a device that erects a field like a bubble around themselves. I imagine it would take allot of energy to produce even if emitting at low levels.It would not stop aging or cancer.It would slow aging and reduce cancer rates. Even when the device is made small I do not see why there would be any real use for this except when an environment inside an environment is necessary. This flaw you speak of will never be viewed by everyone in the same way. You seem a genuine person, so I tried.
martillo
Thank you for your comment.
I think it would not work since too energetic photons come even from the interior of the bodies of any being. Even if you could design some kind of environment ot isolate the being from any external too energetic photon the atoms and molecules of the proper being obeys the same Physics and so its own atoms and molecules would still absorb some several amount of photons with low energies and spontaneously produce a single too energetic photon times to times. This emission of a too energetic photon could alter the proper structure of the emitting molecule or reach another molecule yet inside the organism "breaking" its structure and so "deteriorating" it.

I don't see other way than a change in the Physics of the Universe...
Just a change in the real running value of some parameter of the Physics Laws seems to be needed for the aging problem...
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (martillo+Jul 22 2009, 05:21 AM)
Thank you for your comment.
I think it would not work since too energetic photons come even from the interior of the bodies of any being. Even if you could design some kind of environment ot isolate the being from any external too energetic photon the atoms and molecules of the proper being obeys the same Physics and so its own atoms and molecules would still absorb some several amount of photons with low energies and spontaneously produce a single too energetic photon times to times. This emission of a too energetic photon could alter the proper structure of the emitting molecule or reach another molecule yet inside the organism "breaking" its structure and so "deteriorating" it.

I don't see other way than a change in the Physics of the Universe...
Just a change in the real running value of some parameter of the Physics Laws seems to be needed for the aging problem...

If aging stopped, the population would max out and resources would become scarce. The birth rate would only add to the trouble. The only solutions are: no new children or mandatory execution of anyone over a certain age.

Great plan.
Guest
Cause of aging?

Time.
RobDegraves
Do you guys even read anything prior to posting?

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Yes I'm considering that aging actually happens just due to the "too big photons" present.


No it does not. Aging is predetermined for most organisms. It's just the way nature built us so that we could evolve. If not for death... we would still just be amoeba.

Read about telomeres sometimes and telomerase. Cells are programed to only divide a certain number of times. This means that after a certain amount of time cells cease to reproduce themselves and we age. It's a great deal more complex than this short explanation of course. Cancer cells have a mechanism that keeps their telomeres intact and thus they are immortal.... ie they do not age.

It's rather interesting I think that aging and cancer are so closely linked. Cancer cells do not age because their telomeres are extended. However there is some suggestion that lengthening telomeres might extend life but would tend to cause cancer.

It's an interesting subject but a complex one. Your photon theory is just stupid.
martillo
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If aging stopped, the population would max out and resources would become scarce. The birth rate would only add to the trouble. The only solutions are: no new children or mandatory execution of anyone over a certain age.

Great plan.

No, there just will be naturally much less deaths as much less births.
martillo
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Cause of aging?

Time.


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Cause of aging?

Time.


It's rather interesting I think that aging and cancer are so closely linked. Cancer cells do not age because their telomeres are extended. However there is some suggestion that lengthening telomeres might extend life but would tend to cause cancer.

It's an interesting subject but a complex one.


Those are your points of view.
I disagree and I have presented arguments based on the well known ultra-violet photons effects for people that could be interested in a new approach, a new possibility and who knows something else could be discovered to help more.
If you can try something different fine, do it, I'm not telling anyone to not do anything. Try your own way and good luck. I suggest to create your own thread to discuss your ways. Let me discuss my possibility here.
Nothing have been achieved in the past, just let me try something new.
RobDegraves
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Those are your points of view.


No.. that would be the point of view of current research. I have not made up my own theory.

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Those are your points of view.


No.. that would be the point of view of current research. I have not made up my own theory.

I disagree and I have presented arguments based on the well known ultra-violet photons effects for people that could be interested in a new approach, a new possibility and who knows something else could be discovered to help more.


What arguments?

What research do you have to support it... if any?
martillo
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I have not made up my own theory.

Then why don't you try something?
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I have not made up my own theory.

Then why don't you try something?
No.. that would be the point of view of current research.

But there's no results yet. Then why can't I try my way?
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What arguments?

You didn't really stopped a little and tried to understand what I have written in the head post isn't it? It just "sounds" strange to your ears and you react in seconds saying it's wrong.
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What arguments?

You didn't really stopped a little and tried to understand what I have written in the head post isn't it? It just "sounds" strange to your ears and you react in seconds saying it's wrong.
What research do you have to support it... if any?

I'm making my own research right now and the aim of the thread is to research more, do you mind?
flyingbuttressman
martillo,
Your "plan" appears to consist of asking god or gods to fix a "flaw" in reality. That's not a solution, that's plain retarded.
martillo
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Your "plan" appears to consist of asking god or gods to fix a "flaw" in reality. That's not a solution, that's plain retarded.

May be for you who of course must do not believe in any kind of "Gods" or any kind of intelligence above humans' intelligence isn't it?
Fortunatelly I have heard that about 80-90% of the people in the World actually do believe in something although is not clear how really it is nor what it could be capable to do and there is no real evidence, but for all that people their intuition and common sense says something should exist and I agree and so I could expect something out of what we see in our daily life.
For us the door of the help of some kind of "superior intelligence" is open and this also opens the possibility of some things for us to do that people like you don't have. For everybody like you the World is as it is and there will never be a fundamental change. That is not possible for you. You just worry in understanding this World as it is and try to live life the better way you could what is not bad, I'm just saying that for you there's nothing else, nothing else is possible.
The other people has another door open, the door to think in how the things are but also how they could be or how they should be. This is not always good because it challenge our minds to think in lot of things, use the imagination hard, sometimes is frustant because something we thought once we on our own discover later is not right, and so "psychological force" is needed to go on.
So if you think that everything is right the way it is and you can live well and happy this way, if everything you see and hear on the "World" you perceive is fine for you, then enjoy it!
I'm sorry but I can't, I can't really enjoy this kind of life and I think it is the same for many people and we will work to change some things.
Do you mind if we try to find a way to not "age naturally" what for me is body cells deterioration? Do you really want aging? Would you really like it? Honestly I don't think you would. or you haven't thought enough about it or you haven't seen enough about it yet. If you could agree with this I just will ask to let me try something even if it could sound strange at a first view.
flyingbuttressman
So, if the majority if human believe it, it must be right. But, if the majority of scientists believe something, it's because they aren't open-minded enough? Wow, that's pretty stupid. Notice that 90% of Nobel Prize science recipients have been atheists. The greatest minds of the 20th century: atheists. Just because the public believes something doesn't make it true.
AlexG
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May be for you who of course must do not believe in any kind of "Gods" or any kind of intelligence above humans' intelligence isn't it?
Fortunatelly I have heard that about 80-90% of the people in the World actually do believe in something although is not clear how really it is nor what it could be capable to do and there is no real evidence, but for all that people their intuition and common sense says something should exist and I agree and so I could expect something out of what we see in our daily life.
For us the door of the help of some kind of "superior intelligence" is open and this also opens the possibility of some things for us to do that people like you don't have. For everybody like you the World is as it is and there will never be a fundamental change. That is not possible for you. You just worry in understanding this World as it is and try to live life the better way you could what is not bad, I'm just saying that for you there's nothing else, nothing else is possible.
The other people has another door open, the door to think in how the things are but also how they could be or how they should be. This is not always good because it challenge our minds to think in lot of things, use the imagination hard, sometimes is frustant because something we thought once we on our own discover later is not right, and so "psychological force" is needed to go on.
So if you think that everything is right the way it is and you can live well and happy this way, if everything you see and hear on the "World" you perceive is fine for you, then enjoy it!
I'm sorry but I can't, I can't really enjoy this kind of life and I think it is the same for many people and we will work to change some things.
Do you mind if we try to find a way to not "age naturally" what for me is body cells deterioration? Do you really want aging? Would you really like it? Honestly I don't think you would. or you haven't thought enough about it or you haven't seen enough about it yet. If you could agree with this I just will ask to let me try something even if it could sound strange at a first view.

Just another religious crank.
RobDegraves
Martillo

Let's try some logic here


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I have not made up my own theory.

Then why don't you try something?


Because I am not a doctor. Neither are you I would bet. In fact you seem to lack any knowledge in basic biology.

If you are not willing to put in the time to learn and study a subject properly, you are not going to change anything.

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I have not made up my own theory.

Then why don't you try something?


Because I am not a doctor. Neither are you I would bet. In fact you seem to lack any knowledge in basic biology.

If you are not willing to put in the time to learn and study a subject properly, you are not going to change anything.

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No.. that would be the point of view of current research.

But there's no results yet. Then why can't I try my way?


We could try dancing around and sacrificing a chicken but I don't think it will have much in the way of results either. You might have heard about a little thing called science. It's fun... try it sometimes.


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What research do you have to support it... if any?

I'm making my own research right now and the aim of the thread is to research more, do you mind?



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Your research is to post baseless opinions on the internet?

Brilliant... I hope the medical field catches on to that.

martillo
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So, if the majority if human believe it, it must be right. But, if the majority of scientists believe something, it's because they aren't open-minded enough? Wow, that's pretty stupid.

I don't say it must be right. I say it could be right.
And I think there are scientists that do not discard the partcipation of some kind of intelligence in the development of the entire Universe. I'm just presenting a possibility for them.
The existence of such Intelligence(s) haven't been proven nor the non-existence. So it's a possibility to not be discarded yet. Or do you have the proof?

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So, if the majority if human believe it, it must be right. But, if the majority of scientists believe something, it's because they aren't open-minded enough? Wow, that's pretty stupid.

I don't say it must be right. I say it could be right.
And I think there are scientists that do not discard the partcipation of some kind of intelligence in the development of the entire Universe. I'm just presenting a possibility for them.
The existence of such Intelligence(s) haven't been proven nor the non-existence. So it's a possibility to not be discarded yet. Or do you have the proof?

The greatest minds of the 20th century: atheists.

I guess you are talking about Einstein, Bohr, DeBroglie, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and Dirac for example isn't it?
Well what if I say that everything done in Theoretical Physics in the entire 20th century is WRONG and Physics is LOST nowadays? And I have proofs....
Actually Theoretical Physics "went out of the rails" after Einstein and De Broglie. Not for their famous formulas that have been undoubtelly proven that work but for their theoretical interpretation of them. And I have proofs...
martillo
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Just another religious crank.

Wrong.
I'm not a religious man.
I have faith but not Religion. There's no Religion that satifies my faith.
martillo
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We could try dancing around and sacrificing a chicken but I don't think it will have much in the way of results either. You might have heard about a little thing called science. It's fun... try it sometimes.

What about I proposed at hte head post:
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We could try dancing around and sacrificing a chicken but I don't think it will have much in the way of results either. You might have heard about a little thing called science. It's fun... try it sometimes.

What about I proposed at hte head post:

The fact that too energetic photons do break organic molecules is already known and we can easily find information on the web just searching for ultra-violet or even more energetic radiation effects. It is known that they can even produce DNA mutations. May be further studies are needed to realize that many other essential molecules of cells are affected by ultra-violet radiation causing "cell deterioration" (I mean malfunction). I have already heard on TV that one of the causes of aging being considered by some scientists is that DNA "deteriorate" through time while cells reproduce and I follow this line of reasoning but going further and looking for a possible cause of that deterioration. I consider that the presence of the "too big photons" is the real cause. But not only DNA deterioration in cells' reproduction is the cause of aging. The too energetic photons also affect directly many parts of the cells causing their malfunction.
The other line of research I think would be needed is to verify that too energetic photons (above deep blue color) are produced spontaneously by any atom (organisms' atoms and environment's atoms) under normal conditions without any external source of them (in the abscenece of external radiation). I mean even in a submarine under thje deep sea we would find those photons (may be just as some "background radiation noise").
Unfortunatelly what cannot be verified experimentally is how life could be in the abscence of the too energetic photons. Wecannot construct a lab where they would not be present because as I say they can come from any environment and from inside any organism.
I think that just logic and some imagination can do the rest.

But I guess that cells deterioration by too energetic photons has no sense for you...
flyingbuttressman
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Wrong.
I'm not a religious man.
I have faith but not Religion. There's no Religion that satifies my faith.

Says the religious zealot. Seriously, that's a pretty dumb thing to say. Let me paraphrase.

"My faith is greater than all the other Christians. I'm special."

You're not special, you're a tool.
martillo
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Seriously, that's a pretty dumb thing to say.

Seriously, I don't think so.
flyingbuttressman
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Seriously, I don't think so.

Too bad?
RobDegraves
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But I guess that cells deterioration by too energetic photons has no sense for you...


Lots of things cause cellular damage. I can easily think of a hundred off the top of my head, including light, food, pollution, aging, etc.

The phrase "too energetic photons" has no actual meaning. There are different types of photons and they all have specific energies and their own names. Which one are you talking about.... assuming you even know.
Meem
You know, could one imagine the over-population problem if life-span was increased by 20-30 years, say about one generation. If people think we have problems now ...

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There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away
from us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever....?


If that's too cheesy, I can stop but, please don't allow my sense of humor to detract from a valid point.
flyingbuttressman
The only ways we can accommodate for a sudden increase in lifespans are either drastic reduction of individual consumption, or a further increase in the carrying capacity for the planet. I wouldn't count on the birth rate getting any lower.
Meem
That's the "scary" thing is it not? I can't recall the name of the drug, but I am pretty sure it was developed as a result of a study done on Italians that had a high calorie, cholesterol, and wine diet. They had higher that average life-spans and expectancies. The drug starts with an E I think, and it's found in red wine. I will look it up real fast and see if I can find a link. But the claims being made about it are 20-30 year extension of life (I would assume - in "normal" conditions), craziness.

(found a link pretty easily)
I heard about this on CNN about a month ago. I would recommend looking into it more and not just taking this link for fact. All I did was link the first thing I found, did not really even bother to read or watch it.
http://www.sciencentral.com/video/2008/01/...ine-aging-drug/
martillo
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The phrase "too energetic photons" has no actual meaning. There are different types of photons and they all have specific energies and their own names. Which one are you talking about.... assuming you even know.

As if I would know nothing about photons...
I'm talking about all the photons with energy above of the viewable spectrum of light. This means any photon more energetic than the violet-light photons and I'm not sure about the violet ones.
You should look at the first post again. For example I wrote:
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The phrase "too energetic photons" has no actual meaning. There are different types of photons and they all have specific energies and their own names. Which one are you talking about.... assuming you even know.

As if I would know nothing about photons...
I'm talking about all the photons with energy above of the viewable spectrum of light. This means any photon more energetic than the violet-light photons and I'm not sure about the violet ones.
You should look at the first post again. For example I wrote:
The fact that too energetic photons do break organic molecules is already known and we can easily find information on the web just searching for ultra-violet or even more energetic radiation effects. It is known that they can even produce DNA mutations. May be further studies are needed to realize that many other essential molecules of cells are affected by ultra-violet radiation causing "cell deterioration" (I mean malfunction). I have already heard on TV that one of the causes of aging being considered by some scientists is that DNA "deteriorate" through time while cells reproduce and I follow this line of reasoning but going further and looking for a possible cause of that deterioration. I consider that the presence of the "too big photons" is the real cause. But not only DNA deterioration in cells' reproduction is the cause of aging. The too energetic photons also affect directly many parts of the cells causing their malfunction.
The other line of research I think would be needed is to verify that too energetic photons (above deep blue color) are produced spontaneously by any atom (organisms' atoms and environment's atoms) under normal conditions without any external source of them (in the abscenece of external radiation). I mean even in a submarine under thje deep sea we would find those photons (may be just as some "background radiation noise").
Unfortunatelly what cannot be verified experimentally is how life could be in the abscence of the too energetic photons. Wecannot construct a lab where they would not be present because as I say they can come from any environment and from inside any organism.
I think that just logic and some imagination can do the rest.

flyingbuttressman
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As if I would know nothing about photons...

You obviously don't.

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I'm talking about all the photons with energy above of the viewable spectrum of light. This means any photon more energetic than the violet-light photons and I'm not sure about the violet ones.

So you want to give up x-rays? What happens if I break a bone? Does the universe need to change so that won't happen either?

Your premise is the most mind-numbingly retarded thing I have ever heard.
martillo
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So you want to give up x-rays? What happens if I break a bone?

In our circunstances Tomographs and "Gamma chambers" (just for the case, my wife works in one so I know about) could be developed to work with more common photons may be in the viewable spectrum of light or below. Don't tell me you don't know common light can pass through the body. Just turn on a lamp behind your fingers and you will see how it pass through.

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So you want to give up x-rays? What happens if I break a bone?

In our circunstances Tomographs and "Gamma chambers" (just for the case, my wife works in one so I know about) could be developed to work with more common photons may be in the viewable spectrum of light or below. Don't tell me you don't know common light can pass through the body. Just turn on a lamp behind your fingers and you will see how it pass through.

Your premise is the most mind-numbingly retarded thing I have ever heard.

Not a surprise, coming from you...
flyingbuttressman
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In our circunstances Tomographs and "Gamma chambers" (just for the case, my wife works in one so I know about) could be developed to work with more common photons may be in the viewable spectrum of light or below. Don't tell me you don't know common light can pass through the body. Just turn on a lamp behind your fingers and you will see how it pass through.

IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT.

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Now that the rage has passed, let me explain something to you. ARE HUMANS TRANSPARENT? NO! IF SOMEONE HAS A REALLY BRIGHT LIGHT BEHIND SOMEONE, CAN YOU SEE THROUGH THEM? NO! THAT'S BECAUSE ONLY HIGH FREQUENCY LIGHT CAN PENETRATE FLESH AND CARRY WITH IT AN ACTUAL INTERFERENCE PATTERN. THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD MISS THIS VERY VERY BASIC PHYSICS QUESTION LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT you have Downs Syndrome. How else could you be this retarded? Why don't you ask your "wife" whether an x-ray machine would work with visible light? I hope she doesn't laugh too hard.

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If you follow your logic, try this: If I fire a .22 round at a tree, the bullet doesn't go through, it get's stuck in the bark. This stands to reason that if you fired it at your foot, it should get stuck in the outer layers of your skin and not go through. Why don't you try this and report back?
RobDegraves
So.... it's about what breaks molecules and DNA.

And you propose to stop that.

What are you going to do about all the other things that damage cells and DNA?

QUOTE
DNA damage can be subdivided into two main types:

  1. endogenous damage such as attack by reactive oxygen species produced from normal metabolic byproducts (spontaneous mutation), especially the process of oxidative deamination;
        1. also includes replication errors
  2. exogenous damage caused by external agents such as
        1. ultraviolet [UV 200-300nm] radiation from the sun
        2. other radiation frequencies, including x-rays and gamma rays
        3. hydrolysis or thermal disruption
        4. certain plant toxins
        5. human-made mutagenic chemicals, especially aromatic compounds that act as DNA intercalating agents
        6. cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy
        7. viruses [3]


How about that hydrolysis?

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QUOTE
DNA damage can be subdivided into two main types:

  1. endogenous damage such as attack by reactive oxygen species produced from normal metabolic byproducts (spontaneous mutation), especially the process of oxidative deamination;
        1. also includes replication errors
  2. exogenous damage caused by external agents such as
        1. ultraviolet [UV 200-300nm] radiation from the sun
        2. other radiation frequencies, including x-rays and gamma rays
        3. hydrolysis or thermal disruption
        4. certain plant toxins
        5. human-made mutagenic chemicals, especially aromatic compounds that act as DNA intercalating agents
        6. cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy
        7. viruses [3]


How about that hydrolysis?

hydrolysis is an important process in plants and animals, the most significant example being energy metabolism and storage. All living cells require a continual supply of energy for two main purposes: for the biosynthesis of small and macromolecules, and for the active transport of ions and molecules across cell membranes. The energy derived from the oxidation of nutrients is not used directly but, by means of a complex and long sequence of reactions, it is channeled into a special energy-storage molecule, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

The ATP molecule contains pyrophosphate linkages (bonds formed when two phosphate units are combined together) that release energy when needed. ATP can be hydrolyzed in two ways: the removal of terminal phosphate to form adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate, or the removal of a terminal diphosphate to yield adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and pyrophosphate. The latter is usually cleaved further to yield two phosphates. This results in biosynthesis reactions, which do not occur alone, that can be driven in the direction of synthesis when the phosphate bonds are hydrolyzed.


Just curious... how do you stop a process that is integral to living?

You would need to stop all those things in order to stop the damage to cells and DNA.

UV light is the least of your problems.

Also... have you considered that UV light is also necessary for us to live?

How about that vitamin D?

QUOTE
A positive effect of UVB exposure is that it induces the production of vitamin D in the skin. It has been estimated that tens of thousands of premature deaths occur in the United States annually from a range of cancers due to vitamin D deficiency.[7] Another effect of vitamin D deficiency is poor absorption of calcium which can lead to bone diseases.


Lastly...

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A positive effect of UVB exposure is that it induces the production of vitamin D in the skin. It has been estimated that tens of thousands of premature deaths occur in the United States annually from a range of cancers due to vitamin D deficiency.[7] Another effect of vitamin D deficiency is poor absorption of calcium which can lead to bone diseases.


Lastly...

Wecannot construct a lab where they would not be present because as I say they can come from any environment and from inside any organism.


Do you have any proof of this or did you just make that up?

Xenocidal Ender
I hate to bring up an obvious rebuttal to everyone in this thread who has outright denied the existence of the TC's idea. But: Galileo. Many great thinkers ( Don't think I'm flattering you) weren't believed and were discredited and shunned, but they turned out being right, and their ideas changed the world. Give it a chance. If he lacks evidence or research, why not help him find some instead of turning your backs.

And who was it that called him a "religious zealot"??? He's obviously not. There's no religion that states that photons cause death. He never said he believes in a deity. He said he believes in an "intelligent design". You're the only one that sounds like a religious zealot, defending your beliefs without giving the other a chance. (and I realize I'm contradicting myself because YOU didn't say anything about a deity you believe in either)

He's just trying to get the idea off the ground, get some discussion going, share some ideas, etc.


</end rant>

martillo
QUOTE
ARE HUMANS TRANSPARENT? NO! IF SOMEONE HAS A REALLY BRIGHT LIGHT BEHIND SOMEONE, CAN YOU SEE THROUGH THEM? NO! THAT'S BECAUSE ONLY HIGH FREQUENCY LIGHT CAN PENETRATE FLESH AND CARRY WITH IT AN ACTUAL INTERFERENCE PATTERN. THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD MISS THIS VERY VERY BASIC PHYSICS QUESTION LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT you have Downs Syndrome.

An actual interference pattern? This is not the phenomenon/mechanism by which the images are obtained, not at all, but I will not waste time explaining you.

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ARE HUMANS TRANSPARENT? NO! IF SOMEONE HAS A REALLY BRIGHT LIGHT BEHIND SOMEONE, CAN YOU SEE THROUGH THEM? NO! THAT'S BECAUSE ONLY HIGH FREQUENCY LIGHT CAN PENETRATE FLESH AND CARRY WITH IT AN ACTUAL INTERFERENCE PATTERN. THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD MISS THIS VERY VERY BASIC PHYSICS QUESTION LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT you have Downs Syndrome.

An actual interference pattern? This is not the phenomenon/mechanism by which the images are obtained, not at all, but I will not waste time explaining you.

If you follow your logic, try this: If I fire a .22 round at a tree, the bullet doesn't go through, it get's stuck in the bark. This stands to reason that if you fired it at your foot, it should get stuck in the outer layers of your skin and not go through. Why don't you try this and report back?

What an analogy but you know nothing about photons. You can make a laser with visible light and pass through a piece of metal making a big hole but this not what would be needed of course. In other cases common photons can pass between atoms of different materials in different ways and with appropiated sensors their presence and abscence could be detected in the other side.
May be is not so easy and that's why this haven't been developed yet but actually today is not known what is light made of, hoe photons really are, isn't it?

You are too narrowminded for anything new to be possible...
RobDegraves
QUOTE
But: Galileo. Many great thinkers ( Don't think I'm flattering you) weren't believed and were discredited and shunned, but they turned out being right, and their ideas changed the world.


Yep

They did it by proving their theory.

Proof.


Also...

Did you ever notice the thousands of people who weren't believed and were discredited... and they turned out to have been loonies anyway?

Also...


Did you also note that most of those thinkers also went out and educated themselves... learned about their subject... before coming out with their theory?

Martillo obviously knows little about the subject. Therefore... most likely his theories have even less value.


Lastly...

I am always willing to listen to new theories.. but if they don't make sense or ignore widely accepted facts.... expect to be told exactly that.

martillo
QUOTE
How about that hydrolysis?

QUOTE 
hydrolysis is an important process in plants and animals, the most significant example being energy metabolism and storage. All living cells require a continual supply of energy for two main purposes: for the biosynthesis of small and macromolecules, and for the active transport of ions and molecules across cell membranes. The energy derived from the oxidation of nutrients is not used directly but, by means of a complex and long sequence of reactions, it is channeled into a special energy-storage molecule, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

The ATP molecule contains pyrophosphate linkages (bonds formed when two phosphate units are combined together) that release energy when needed. ATP can be hydrolyzed in two ways: the removal of terminal phosphate to form adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate, or the removal of a terminal diphosphate to yield adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and pyrophosphate. The latter is usually cleaved further to yield two phosphates. This results in biosynthesis reactions, which do not occur alone, that can be driven in the direction of synthesis when the phosphate bonds are hydrolyzed.



Just curious... how do you stop a process that is integral to living?

You would need to stop all those things in order to stop the damage to cells and DNA.

Why to stop this? It happens with photons under the violet spectrum. Where did you see/heard such process emit ultra-violet radiation?

QUOTE (->
QUOTE
How about that hydrolysis?

QUOTE 
hydrolysis is an important process in plants and animals, the most significant example being energy metabolism and storage. All living cells require a continual supply of energy for two main purposes: for the biosynthesis of small and macromolecules, and for the active transport of ions and molecules across cell membranes. The energy derived from the oxidation of nutrients is not used directly but, by means of a complex and long sequence of reactions, it is channeled into a special energy-storage molecule, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

The ATP molecule contains pyrophosphate linkages (bonds formed when two phosphate units are combined together) that release energy when needed. ATP can be hydrolyzed in two ways: the removal of terminal phosphate to form adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate, or the removal of a terminal diphosphate to yield adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and pyrophosphate. The latter is usually cleaved further to yield two phosphates. This results in biosynthesis reactions, which do not occur alone, that can be driven in the direction of synthesis when the phosphate bonds are hydrolyzed.



Just curious... how do you stop a process that is integral to living?

You would need to stop all those things in order to stop the damage to cells and DNA.

Why to stop this? It happens with photons under the violet spectrum. Where did you see/heard such process emit ultra-violet radiation?

What are you going to do about all the other things that damage cells and DNA?

They would be other areas of needed research. I'm presenting what I think is the main one.

QUOTE
UV light is the least of your problems.

No, I think is the main one. Yet to be proved of course, I'm just proposing to be studied scientifically.

QUOTE (->
QUOTE
UV light is the least of your problems.

No, I think is the main one. Yet to be proved of course, I'm just proposing to be studied scientifically.

How about that vitamin D?

QUOTE 
A positive effect of UVB exposure is that it induces the production of vitamin D in the skin. It has been estimated that tens of thousands of premature deaths occur in the United States annually from a range of cancers due to vitamin D deficiency.[7] Another effect of vitamin D deficiency is poor absorption of calcium which can lead to bone diseases.

Skimos live their live so clothed that they do not receive sunlight and live fine. May be you would say they get the vitamins from seals, then there are other forms to obtain vitamin D.

QUOTE
Do you have any proof of this or did you just make that up?

I "made that up" and I'm presenting it here for discussion and as possible good line of research.
Xenocidal Ender
First off: thanks for replying with a cool head and actually replying.

I agree the lack of evidence on Martillo's behalf is killing his argument, etc.

But just saying, most of my little rant was directed towards flyingbuttressman, I don't want to start anything, but he's getting on my nerves a little.
martillo
QUOTE
QUOTE 
But: Galileo. Many great thinkers ( Don't think I'm flattering you) weren't believed and were discredited and shunned, but they turned out being right, and their ideas changed the world.



Yep

They did it by proving their theory.

Are you saying that Galileo proved his theory in his days? I beleived he died bline in prison...
Sorry but it was really proved and recognized many years after his death!

QUOTE (->
QUOTE
QUOTE 
But: Galileo. Many great thinkers ( Don't think I'm flattering you) weren't believed and were discredited and shunned, but they turned out being right, and their ideas changed the world.



Yep

They did it by proving their theory.

Are you saying that Galileo proved his theory in his days? I beleived he died bline in prison...
Sorry but it was really proved and recognized many years after his death!

Lastly...

I am always willing to listen to new theories.. but if they don't make sense or ignore widely accepted facts.... expect to be told exactly that.

And do you expect a really new theory to appears with total sense without disagreeing with anything in the mainstream "lines"? Then you don't know how was the birth of quite all new theory.
Granouille
QUOTE (martillo+Jul 23 2009, 05:01 PM)

Skimos live their live so clothed that they do not receive sunlight and live fine. May be you would say they get the vitamins from seals, then there are other forms to obtain vitamin D.

What the hell is a 'Skimo', you illiterate racist? Dear lord. Did you choose 'Martillo' as a handle here because you are dumb as bag of hammers?

QUOTE

I "made that up" and I'm presenting it here for discussion and as possible good line of research.


I "made that up" and I'm presenting it here as possible proof that you may be one of Philip's Lizard-men... dry.gif
martillo
QUOTE
I hate to bring up an obvious rebuttal to everyone in this thread who has outright denied the existence of the TC's idea. But: Galileo. Many great thinkers ( Don't think I'm flattering you) weren't believed and were discredited and shunned, but they turned out being right, and their ideas changed the world. Give it a chance. If he lacks evidence or research, why not help him find some instead of turning your backs.

And who was it that called him a "religious zealot"??? He's obviously not. There's no religion that states that photons cause death. He never said he believes in a deity. He said he believes in an "intelligent design". You're the only one that sounds like a religious zealot, defending your beliefs without giving the other a chance. (and I realize I'm contradicting myself because YOU didn't say anything about a deity you believe in either)

He's just trying to get the idea off the ground, get some discussion going, share some ideas, etc.

You got it in the appropiated way.
martillo
QUOTE
What the hell is a 'Skimo', you illiterate racist?

Well I got it from a traduction with "Babel Fish" translator but seems is not right then. How the people that live in the Artic are called/named?
I'm not racist at all. it's your lack of disposition to comprehend and your strong agressive disposition to disregard my position in any possible way.

No, it was my mistake. I translated it again giving ESKIMO. Is it right?

Not so wrong isn't it?
This only shows the strong predisposition against anything I write...

QUOTE (->
QUOTE
What the hell is a 'Skimo', you illiterate racist?

Well I got it from a traduction with "Babel Fish" translator but seems is not right then. How the people that live in the Artic are called/named?
I'm not racist at all. it's your lack of disposition to comprehend and your strong agressive disposition to disregard my position in any possible way.

No, it was my mistake. I translated it again giving ESKIMO. Is it right?

Not so wrong isn't it?
This only shows the strong predisposition against anything I write...

I "made that up" and I'm presenting it here as possible proof that you may be one of Philip's Lizard-men...

Who is "Philip's Lizard"? I don't know this name.
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (Xenocidal Ender+Jul 23 2009, 05:39 PM)
And who was it that called him a "religious zealot"??? He's obviously not. There's no religion that states that photons cause death. He never said he believes in a deity. He said he believes in an "intelligent design". You're the only one that sounds like a religious zealot, defending your beliefs without giving the other a chance. (and I realize I'm contradicting myself because YOU didn't say anything about a deity you believe in either)

He's just trying to get the idea off the ground, get some discussion going, share some ideas, etc.

I'm sorry I freaked out on him, but his "idea" according to him is asking god to remove the entire upper end of the EM spectrum. That's not an idea, that's a delusion. (edit: disregard)He himself has stated that he has no need for facts, education, or knowledge.(/edit) Tell me that he's legitimately trying to work out any sort of useful idea. The fact that he's taking so long to piece together basic facts is a sign of some kind of learning disability.

I get a little unhinged when exposed to unbridled raging ignorance.
martillo
QUOTE
He himself has stated that he has no need for facts, education, or knowledge.

I didn't say that. Don't LIE.
Actually I'm an Engineer with some posgraduate specialization and I have been studying my entire life.
Now, in the abscence of arguments you begin LYING with something I never said anywhere...
I'm getting tired of this.
I must say that finally the "crank discouragers" win in this forum. Lamentably.
Anyway my proposition has been presented and would hold in the minds that have seen and could be interested. I cannot expect anything else from here.
I think I'm leaving.
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (martillo+Jul 23 2009, 06:43 PM)
Actually I'm an Engineer with some posgraduate specialization and I have been studying my entire life.

I must have mixed you up with someone else.

How can you be an engineer and not know why x-rays and visible light are not interchangeable?

I called you a zealot because you believe in intelligent design. Only a zealot would put their faith before facts and evidence.
AlexG
QUOTE
I think I'm leaving.


Promises, promises...
AlexG
QUOTE (martillo+Jul 23 2009, 06:43 PM)
I didn't say that. Don't LIE.
Actually I'm an Engineer with some posgraduate specialization and I have been studying my entire life.
Now, in the abscence of arguments you begin LYING with something I never said anywhere...
I'm getting tired of this.
I must say that finally the "crank discouragers" win in this forum. Lamentably.
Anyway my proposition has been presented and would hold in the minds that have seen and could be interested. I cannot expect anything else from here.
I think I'm leaving.

Lying scheissekopf.

QUOTE
martillo Posted on: Jul 20 2009, 05:40 PM


Have you ever actually studied physics at any level above high school? 


Do you mean waste time and memory and brain in wrong things? No I didn't. That's why I succeded, thinking in the right things first.
martillo
As I posted in other thread:
QUOTE
I'm getting tired of this.
I must say that finally the "crank discouragers" win in this forum. Lamentably.
Anyway my proposition has been presented and would hold in the minds that have seen and could be interested. I cannot expect anything else from here.
I think I'm leaving.



martillo
Something does not match in Physforum.

The forum "Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, New Theories" states under the title:
QUOTE

Discuss here the most attractive and mysterious physics areas. Post here your ideas and thoughts, which might look weird at the moment. Who knows how it's going to be 100 years from now!


I thought that this line of thought would be present somweway in all Physforum forums but actually there are too much "crank discouragers" bothering too much.

Has the Forum fall into the fallacy that in spite of its original phylosophy actually came a place where only the "stablished believing" followers can feel "comfortable" annihilating here the main Humanity Right of Freedom of Thought?

Being more "practical":
The "crank discouragers" win here but is this good for the Forum?

Something does not match.

May the phylosophy of Physforum is right and something really needed in the web but there is no people here with the strictly necessary open minds to follow it.

???...
flyingbuttressman
martillo,

Oh jesus, here comes the whining. There's a reason that we picked on you. We don't pick on people with realistic ideas. Your idea would only work in fantasy-land. So, why don't you live up to your threat, and GTFO?
martillo
QUOTE
Oh jesus, here comes the whining. There's a reason that we picked on you. We don't pick on people with realistic ideas. Your idea would only work in fantasy-land.

And what a hell you think you are to conclude about anything?
Who you think you are to judge about anything?

Let me say what you are: you are just a little stone in the broad way of humanity development. Just that.
And humanity knows how to move stones...
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (martillo+Jul 24 2009, 10:36 AM)
And what a hell you think you are to conclude about anything?
Who you think you are to judge about anything?

Let me say what you are: you are just a little stone in the broad way of humanity development. Just that.
And humanity knows how to move stones...

Keep telling yourself that. Do I have to remind you that you are the one who wants to get rid of half of the EM spectrum? That's pretty retarded if you ask me.
AlexG
QUOTE
And what a hell you think you are to conclude about anything?
Who you think you are to judge about anything?


People who actually know something about the subjects you're bullshi#ting about.

Lying scheissekopf.
martillo
"AlexG" and "flyingbuttressman" the leaders of the "crank discouragers"...

"AlexG" wrote in other thread:
QUOTE
My business is computers.

Cranks are just a hobby.

What else could be expected than a "scheissekopf".

You feel really comfortable here at Physforum isn't it?
That's what I was saying.
You are someway even encouraged...

Time to go. [Moderator: Agreed. Suspended 21 days.]
"Hasta la vista, baby."
AlexG
QUOTE
"AlexG" and "flyingbuttressman" the leaders of the "crank discouragers"...


Nicest thing that's been said about me lately.

gendo
The OP seems a little "off his rocker" but I would like to take this opportunity to ask an aging-related question.

Aside from age-related mental illnesses, does the brain age? From my understanding, aging stems from the process of creating new cells and the fact that toxic substances can build up over a lifetime. If brain cells do not undergo mitosis, do they still age? Can they live on indefinitely? To cite a bad example, Futurama features numerous characters who are just heads in jars. Aside from the obvious problems, is it possible to keep the brain alive with just an enriched blood feed?
RobDegraves
QUOTE
Aside from age-related mental illnesses, does the brain age?


Actually that is an excellent question and a topic that is much debated nowadays. The brain does age but how and when, and whether this is irreversible is very much in the air right now.

Until this last decade it was generally assumed that the brain started at birth with a certain number of neurons and that the number would slowly diminish as we age. One of the axioms of this was the idea that neurons cannot be replaced. However, research, initially sparked by a team here in Calgary, has shown that this view is false. Not only can neurons be replaced, and are, but the brain's age is quite a complex problem.

Generally speaking the brain ages because neurons die and are not replaced. In addition, after age 40 (damn) a number of changes begin to occur where genes slowly become switched off. This is completely aside from the various degenerative diseases that the brain can be affected with and aside from the general abuse that the brain takes (alcohol, trauma, etc).

Whether those effects can be countered is something we will have to see.
gendo
The sad thing is that the only method to "cure" aging would require gene therapy, which hasn't looked very promising, yet. It's unlikely that anyone would have their child conceived in-vitro just so they won't age as quickly. I see a much bigger market among those who are 30+ who are worried about aging themselves. With that in mind, NANOBOTS! I am seriously looking forward to having a nanite-enhanced immune system.
lzurha
moveing outside of time mybe?
gendo
QUOTE (lzurha+Jul 28 2009, 08:18 PM)
moveing outside of time mybe?

no.
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