Ai Qinglan finally stopped laughing, but Wang Qi lowered his head a little embarrassed, secretly saying that he had made the mistake of empiricism again, he was too taken for granted, and he really lacked the proper essence of a scientist.

In other words, the fundamental mechanism of biological aging is still in the organisms themselves?

"However, the decay of the fire of life and the decay of the soul are indeed ...... with aging."

Seeing that Wang Qi was still puzzled, Ai Qinglan waved her finger and said, "I have also studied this in Tianlingling. In the case of the Terrans, for example, the 'life fire' thing only comes after the fetus has a heartbeat, that is, after the mother's eighth week of pregnancy, and the soul appears when the brain is formed, and it goes after six months. The process of 'aging' is preserved before fertilization. At this point, you have to figure out the cause and effect, first there is life and then there is life fire, not life fire is stored zài, so people have life. ”

Wang Qi pondered. Reiki is an exponent of energy that automatically converges towards an orderly, complex system. Life happens to be a highly ordered complex system, so people have innate power, life fire, and soul...... Therefore, the mystery of aging should still be found in the physical aspect......

Free radicals, somatic mutations, the natural connection of biomolecules, and telomeres are all hypotheses that exist on the earth, and Wang Qi knows a thing or two as common sense, and also has a certain understanding of their advantages and disadvantages.

Neither of these hypotheses can be used as the fundamental mechanism of aging, but Ai Qinglan clearly pointed out that it is an acceleration mechanism, and I am afraid that there is another mystery in it......

The problem that somatic cell mutation cannot solve is mainly that the mutation rate of human cells is actually very low, and even if it accumulates for a hundred years, it cannot lead to a large number of cell population death or rejection in the body......

Telomeres, as for them, can be regarded as the "bindings" of chromosomes. If the chromosome is compared to three thousand green silks, then the telomeres are the head rope that binds them into a horsetail. When telomeres are depleted, chromosomes collapse and apoptosis occurs. It is worth mentioning that telomere loss is reversible and can be supplemented with telomerase enzymes. This is also one of the more promising methods of immortality researched by earth scientists. If it is said that "longevity" is the vigorous secretion of telomerase, it is reasonable, but it is ......

Moreover, the secret method of burning Shouyuan does exist. Generating a large number of free radicals in the body in one breath or promoting blood mutations will not bring power, but will consume mana. In this regard, the telomere theory is a little more reliable...... But burning telomeres and telomerase? That's!

Flesh...... Burning Shou Yuan......

Seeing that Wang Qi was silent for a long time, Ai Qinglan shook her head: "Senior sister's friendly reminder! You have to find this from the system." ”

System?

Wang Qi frowned, quickly calculated countless possibilities, and then vetoed them one by one. Oh, a flash of inspiration came to his mind: "Entropy?"

"That's right! It's entropy!" Ai Qinglan clapped her hands: "Life is a system, and what is the bottom layer of this system? It is the continuation of the bloodline! And what role does the bloodline play in the process of cell division? What are we discussing when we discuss the bloodline?"

Without waiting for Wang Qi to answer, Ai Qinglan said by herself: "Editing, proofreading, transcription, redundancy." ”

Editing, proofreading, transcription, redundancy! These are undoubtedly the means by which information is processed.

But once biology gets to the microscopic level,

"And what is really related to Shouyuan is the part of 'redundancy'. You should know that among the bloodlines of the human race, there are many bloodline roots that are meaningless and inconspicuous. ”

"However, the meaning of redundancy lies in ......" Ai Qinglan originally stopped here for a while, wanting to sell a pass, but Wang Qi said the correct answer like a dream: "The error tolerance rate is ......"

Redundancy, which represents the fault tolerance rate of mutations.

The "biological" genetic material, which is almost impossible to count as living things, is very simple and has little tolerance for mutations, so new varieties can emerge every few years. And the more advanced the animal, the higher the tolerance rate of genetic material to mutations.

And the fault tolerance rate represents

Wang Qi found another blind spot: "In this way, under the same aura conditions, the human race Shouyuan should be much greater than other races......

Ai Qinglan explained: "There is also metabolism. 'System redundancy' only determines the basic longevity, and the speed of consumption is determined by metabolism. ”

Suppose that the human race has a lifespan of 100 years, and consumes one year of lifespan every year. If there is a turtle demon with an innate longevity of only one-fifth of the human race, but the metabolic speed is only one-twentieth of that of the human race, then it can live for four hundred years.

And let me remind you again, the definition of metabolism is the exchange of matter and energy between the body and the external environment, as well as the process of self-renewal of matter and energy in living organisms. This is the process of absorption of the isolated system of the 'flesh' in exchange with the outside world, and it is also the process of internal consumption of the flesh......"

"It's not just a decrease in entropy, but also an increase in entropy!" Wang Qi replied immediately.

Yes, how did I forget the theorem that life is a phenomenon of negative entropy?

The entropy quantity is the quantity that represents the disorder of the system. Entropy increase is the process by which the system tends from order to disorder.

After the generalization of the second law of thermodynamics called by the earth and the third law of burning heaven by God, it is possible to easily conclude the fact that in isolated systems, entropy increases are inevitable.

The universe is the largest isolated system, in other words, the ultimate theorem that reveals how the universe died.

If the universe is like this, how can things in the universe be spared? However, there is a phenomenon that can resist this trend locally.

That's life.

The human body is a complex system, and every respiration of every cell increases the entropy of this system. The act of "living" is to counteract the increase in entropy in the body. When the amount of entropy causes the body's systems to be disordered, the person dies.

Therefore, from the point of view of physics and systems theory, the essence of aging is entropy increase.

"I see...... Senior Sister Ai, the result of the several possible theories you mentioned is that the disorder of the 'human body' system is enhanced!" Wang Qi finally figured it out, clapping his hands and laughing.

Free radicals destroy the cell itself, somatic mutations are the accumulation of random errors in cell replication, and telomere depletion is the loss of chromosome constraints...... These can be seen as orderly area disorder!

Ai Qinglan nodded: "Yes, you are a fast learner! Then we can move on to the next question-why does the life span of the monk increase?"

"The monk's longevity will increase because he has an additional system in his body—the system that he has attained. ”

"This system is directly connected to your 'life'. Because of this system, your body has a higher tolerance for mistakes, which is to increase your innate longevity, and on the other hand, after cultivating the Fa, you have to communicate with heaven and earth and exchange spiritual power, which makes our 'body' a more open system, counteracting the increase in entropy -- this is equivalent to slowing down metabolism in disguise!"

Wang Qi nodded in understanding. The so-called "health preservation" method is to reduce the damage of the body through a series of measures to achieve the purpose of slowing down metabolism.

"In other words, the principle of immortality is actually to make the body a completely open system, to achieve the process of 'unity of heaven and man', and to live with the sky?"

Entropy increase only makes sense in isolated systems, and being open to it can avoid physical death.

"Yes, that's it. Ai Qinglan nodded and said, "As for the secret method of burning Shouyuan, it does not act on the physical body, but on the mana system - annihilating the 'order' of mana in the body in exchange for powerful power. Conversely, if the entropy of your mana system is too high, it will in turn reduce your innate lifespan. ”

Wang Qi asked, "But...... Why does annihilation of the 'order' produce power? ”

Ai Qinglan spread her hands: "God knows." Just to come to this conclusion, our Tianling Ridge has successively ominated more than 4,000 volunteers, and each of them burned fifteen years of life yuan with the secret method of burning longevity, and burned a total of 60,000 years - in order to make up for the elixir of 60,000 years of life, Tianling Ridge almost sold part of the sect's station, you know!"