"The Decrease Of Entropy With Aging Would Be Analogous To Crystallization"

[Such_Saturation]

Although metals are conductors, the function of the coherers of Bose and others shows that the surface is a semiconductor, that requires the slight excitation of an electromagnetic wave to become conductive, at which point the conduction band of electrons in the metal becomes coherent and extends from one particle into the others. The surface of any phase of a substance has electronic properties distinct from those of the bulk phase, and in a sense the interface constitutes a special phase of matter. When the electrons of the interface lose their special properties, the structure of the whole system changes.

When a muscle cell is stimulated enough to cause a contraction, the interruption of its resting phase causes a shift in the charge concentration on the proteins, potassium ions are exchanged for sodium ions, calcium ions enter, and phosphate ions separate from ATP, and are replaced by the transfer of phosphate to ADP from creatine phosphate.

Since the quantum physicist E. Schroedinger wrote his book, Time's Arrow, people have often thought of life in terms of negentropy, going against the general tendency of entropy to increase, except for aging and death, which are seen as obeying a law of increasing entropy. But A. Zotin investigated organisms, rather than abstractions about electrons, and shows that aging involves a decrease in entropy, and a slowing of metabolism. The decrease of entropy with aging, according to his view, would be analogous to crystallization, a sort of progressive freezing.

 

[Tarmander]

Interesting...we are all crystallizing then?

 

[Such_Saturation]

Interesting...we are all crystallizing then?

Well... we try not to...

 

[Regina]

 

[Such_Saturation]

 

[shepherdgirl]

"Be water, my friend."

 

[johnwester130]

Is this the same calcification ?

 

[Such_Saturation]

Is this the same calcification ?

It can be seen as the same process but I think it's more of a consequence of it.