On 18/02/2014, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Edgar, > > Well the way in which I posed my question betrayed my lack of > understanding, but the answers were illuminating. > > So in this vein I will pose another. There is a fellow Peter Beamish, who > posts on the Mind/Brain and Theoretical lists (who is a biologist with a > PhD from MIT for work done at Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst), that believes > that in addition to clock time as in SR and GR, there is also a second time > he calls Rhythm Based Time RBT that is independent of clock time and that > aging of biological organisms depends only on RBT. As a result he thinks > that resolves the Twin Paradox. > > I am not aware of any experiments with significant SR that validate or > falsify biological aging. So I wonder if anyone has info on either > possibility. Perhaps the answers will again be illuminating.
Surely this implies that there is something special about living creatures - otherwise aging is merely (very complex) physical processes, and there is no reason to assume it has its own time dimension. So what is this special feature? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
