Can man live forever?

As a boy, he used to read Anbar Nag Maria, an episodic series written by A. Hameed Sahib. The hero of this story, Anbar, is a handsome young man.

His specialty is that he does not die in case of any disease, calamity, accident or attack. As if he had received eternal life. But such a character is found only in Devomalai stories, it does not exist in reality. However, now after the great development of science and technology in the western world, especially the billionaires are trying to use their wealth to somehow get eternal life, to live forever in the world of youth.

One wants to become a robot or a machine into which one’s mind can fit. Thus, even after losing his body, he will live on through his mind in a mechanical body. One wants to prolong one’s life with the help of certain foods and medicines. Take, for example, American billionaire, Brian Johnson. He has recruited a team of 30 doctors who monitor his physical functions every moment. He takes more than 100 vitamins a day. Every food is tested for purity. In fact, this forty-five-year-old American has made it his life’s mission to stay young forever. And he spends several crores of rupees daily on this mission.

Two basic theories

Medical scientists, however, say that man may never get eternal life because there is a principle in nature that everything must perish, even if it is too big to see but infinite. In scientific terms, this natural principle is called the “Second Law of Thermodynamics”.

Why does every living thing, including humans, die of old age? Experts have formulated two basic theories to answer this question. The evolutionary view is the first and that is that man, animal and tree have to grow old and die so that new generation can be born. As if there comes a time when our body cannot repair itself… it is not a defect or defect but a natural process.

Another theory is that our body undergoes breakdown at the atomic level. This very minor level of physical breakdown gradually weakens the body of the organism to such an extent that it cannot sustain itself and dies. The same natural process is described by the second law of kinetics. The majority of experts now believe that it is because of this physical breakdown that a person ages and eventually dies. As if due to natural law, humans may never fulfill their desire to live forever.

However, it is possible that after the reasonable development of science and technology, he will invent such a robot in which the human brain can be kept alive i.e. able to work. Then man would technically be alive, though he would lose his physical structure. It is also possible for humans to make the structure and appearance of the robot exactly like humans. What the future holds for mankind, no one knows.

Each cell a city

How does the human body break down? In this regard, during the last five or six years, interesting facts have come to the fore through research and experiments. Scientists have discovered that an adult human is made up of “73 trillion” cells, that is thirty-seven thousand billion cells. There are more than 200 types of these cells. All of them do their specific job. For example, one type makes skin. Another type processes proteins, and so on. Most types of cells divide to produce new cells. Old cells gradually die.

Each cell is actually like a small city. Libraries, roads, buses, factories, power plants, garbage houses and other necessary buildings are located in this city. The inhabitants of this city are the protein molecules that make energy from food, remove food waste, and repair the cell’s DNA. Our body is “60 percent” water. However, every cell is surrounded by water. Experts have discovered that water molecules in our bodies collide with cells “trillion times per second”. Physicists have named this amazing collision as “thermal motion”. But biologists call this process “violent thermal chaos”.

Violent riots

The reason is this: Common sense says that in such a severe collision situation, the protein molecules of the cell should not work, but they continue to do their job. but how? Experts have not yet been able to unravel this biological mystery. However, religion says on this occasion that this happens with the intention of Allah Ta’ala.

Amazingly, when water molecules collide with a cell trillions of times per second, energy is naturally generated from this collision. The protein molecular machinery of the cell harnesses this energy to increase its efficiency. It is as if they have apparently made a negative process positive for themselves and started working with it. Protein molecules turn riot into peaceful action.

Harnessing the energy generated by the collision is only a temporary benefit. This collision, however, damages the protein molecules in various ways in the long run. For example, the bond of communication between them becomes weak. So the cells are no longer able to do their job properly as before. Nature has given these protein molecules the power to repair damage to the cell and its DNA. But this repair can be done only to a certain extent.

In fact, the collision of water and cell molecules is a continuous process that takes place very quickly. This collision at a very minor level eventually weakens the cells. It creates defects in them. The offspring of this cell are also not very healthy and strong. The molecular machinery of these new cells quickly breaks down. Thus, the abundance of weak and weak cells makes a person old. Science and technology are looking for ways to make the dead cells young and strong again, but experts have not been able to achieve concrete success in this regard.

Expert opinion

Leonard Hayflick, an American anatomist, is considered to be the most prominent scientist of senility. He discovered how many times a human cell can divide, that is, how many times it can produce its own children. This limit is now called the “Hayflick Limit”. After crossing this limit, the cell is no longer able to divide and becomes senescent. Leonard also believed that humans age due to the breakdown of cells.

Leonard says: “Everything in the universe, animate or inanimate, eventually disintegrates and annihilates. After three to four billion years, when the sun will engulf our earth, this world of ours will also be destroyed. The question is, how does the second law of kinetics bring about old age? The reason is that all the atoms spread throughout the universe and the molecules and cells made of them are subject to this law. However, they are gradually destroyed and destroyed.”

The second law of kinetics presents the theory of “entropy”. According to this theory, everything goes from order to chaos. For example, you took an apple. According to the theory of entropy, it is regulated. You started eating apples again. It will break into pieces in the mouth. Then it will go to the stomach where its pieces will be mixed. Thus the apple perished.

In the human body, the complex process of entropy is carried out daily by trillions of cells and millions of billions of times. The older a person is, the greater the entropy process occurs. But this process also plays its role in aging a person. The reason is that our body’s cellular machinery cannot repair damage to every cell. In this way, defects accumulate and eventually make a person weak and incapacitated and then one day stop his breathing.

Peter Hoffmann is a biophysicist and nanomechanist. Says: “All the trillions of cells in our body communicate with each other in very complex ways. The actions between them are also very complicated. It is as if the human body is a talisman of consciousness, a masterpiece of nature’s creation that stuns. So, doing billions of jobs per second, if the DNA of a cell gets damaged even a little bit and is not correct, it gets worse. Cells become cancer due to this defect. And if defects spread, old age overtakes a person. After that, death is certain.”

If a person eats good food, exercises, maintains a positive attitude, engages in social interaction, then he can keep himself healthy. But it is clear from the above facts, his physical system goes through round the clock failure, so even after a hundred years, he also eventually dies. It is obvious that if man stops the process of breakdown at the cellular level with the help of science and technology, then he will also be able to stop the onset of old age. But the signs of such success are not far-fetched at present. Perhaps in the future, such a water of life will be in the hands of man that he will get eternal life by drinking it. Right now, this idea is a madman’s dream.