[AntonioLao]

The human body depends upon four major elements for form and function: Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O), Carbon (C), and Nitrogen (N).

Nucleic acids store, transmit and express genetic information. Nucleic acids are composed of subunits called nucleotides. Nucleotides contain a phosphate group, a sugar and a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. The ring is also known as the base because it can accept hydrogen ions (protons). Nucleotides are linked together by bonds between the phosphate group of one nucleotide and the sugar of the next one. In this fashion, nucleotides form long chains. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) stores genetic information in the sequence of the nucleotide subunits. RNA (ribonucleic acid) uses the information stored in DNA to write the instructions for linking together specific sequences of amino acids in order to form polypeptides per original DNA instructions.

DNA nucleotides contain a five carbon sugar called deoxyribose. DNA has four different nucleotides that correspond to four different bases. The purine bases adenine (A) and guanine (G) are composed of two fused rings of nitrogen and hydrogen. The pyrimidine bases cytosine (C) and thymine (T) which are made of only one ring of nitrogen and hydrogen. Guanine and cytosine pair, while thymine and adenine pair. One purine paired with one pyrimidine.

A DNA molecule looks like a double helix. It consists of two chains of nucleotides coiled around each other held by hydrogen bonds between a purine base on one chain and a pyrimidine base on the other.

RNA is slightly different than DNA. Specifically, RNA is a single chain of nucleotides, contains the sugar ribose, and the pyrimidine base uracil is present instead of thymine. Uracil can therefore pair with the purine adenine.

All things considered, the atoms in our bodies are capable of lifetimes comparable to the lifetimes of proton and electron (ignoring the short life of a free neutron), which are in the order of about years or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. To increase the angular distance between the universal time axis, is to decrease the rest mass of an individual.



Reference web site: http://www.biology-online.org/9/1_chemical_composition.htm

[mkirkpatrick]

Antonio have just noticed this long forgotton thread so I decided to resurrect
it,let it be reborn so to speak!

Outwardly we are subjected to the ravages of illusary time,and from birth
we are at once decaying and winding down,but within us,our very soul,well
that is another matter,or spirit if you so wish?

Inwardly we are immortal and eternal beings,outwardly we are subject to
the illusary relative workings of temporal space and time.


regards michael.

[Tina]

Originally Posted by AntonioLao The human body depends upon four major elements for form and function: Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O), Carbon (C), and Nitrogen (N). .... All things considered, the atoms in our bodies are capable of lifetimes comparable to the lifetimes of proton and electron (ignoring the short life of a free neutron), which are in the order of about years or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. To increase the angular distance between the universal time axis, is to decrease the rest mass of an individual.[/font][/color]

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This 100,000,000etc figure sounds like the potential for eternal life but in re-arranged matter after we die (re-redistributed in other manifestations of newly arranged matter but the H,O.C.N or maybe something else that gets re-cycled but is still imbued with "ME" who could have be Fred Bloggs 150 years ago and Narcos 500BC and so on but allways essentially the same "ME") .

I DON'T UNDERSTAND A WORD OF LAST SENTANCE: To increase the angular distance.......?

[AntonioLao]

Originally Posted by Tina I DON'T UNDERSTAND A WORD OF LAST SENTANCE: To increase the angular distance.......?

It is an abstract 4 dimensional space-time axis. Then assuming the entire universe has such an axis and each person also has such an axis. The greater is the angular distance between these axes the more these axes increase their independence. At 90 degrees, the time axis and the space axis become completely independence. But any angle greater than 45 degrees encroaches in the forbidden zone of pure space and thus entering a space-time domain where it is possible to live forever.