Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by HiroshiSan on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:32PM
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Study math now! With reverse ageing in the future you could potentially become one of the best in the field. There is time.
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Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:42PM
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Sounds like an excellent excuse to not study math now.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by HiroshiSan on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:45PM
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Aaah...procrastination. "I'll just wait t'ill I'm 150."
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by pavel_lishin on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:01PM
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Reminds me of some lyrics I like:
Throw it away, what's left to need
When you’ve got infinity
So much out there left to find
We'll do that some other time
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by nitrogen on Saturday December 17, 2016 @09:10PM
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...and an excellent reason to put 100% of available resources into anti-aging research.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by idlewords on Saturday December 17, 2016 @10:00PM
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With reverse ageing, you'll just unlearn all that laboriously learned math.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by lkrubner on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:56AM
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Seriously. Real increases in lifespan (I'm thinking about Louis Gridley Wu celebrating his 200 birthday) would have to involve (at least occassionally) revitalizing stem cells to renew the body at rates that would seem normal in a very young person. This would have to include nerve cells. Presumably, this would lead to a reversal of specialization. That implies memory loss ("memory" in all neurological senses: how to write software, but also how to speak English, how to control defecation, how to control urination. Really renewing one's central nervous system would rewind a person back to the unspecialized nervous system they were born with.)
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by sbierwagen on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:42PM
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Why would you think that? Information is stored in the configuration of neurons, not in the neurons themselves. Neurons are constantly being replaced, and you don't wake up one morning not knowing how to bike because your "bicycle neuron" died.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by Typhon on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:09AM
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Neurons are constantly being replaced
Are they ? As far as I know, neurons last more or less from before birth to death. There is neurogenesis in the hippocampus but it doesn't replace existing neurons, and the new cells themselves last until death.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by Jarwain on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:36AM
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Is this true for neurons that make up the nervous system as well? Or just neurons in the brain?
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by judahmeek on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:32AM
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So do it incrementally like the human body does with everything else so that fresh neurons can learn the roles of the neurons they are replacing.
Re:No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait
by HiroshiSan on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:26AM
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Benjamin button was a documentary ahead of its time.