Sin death and beyond
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SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN<br />
• The skeletal system takes ten years to renew as bone-dissolving <strong>and</strong> bone-rebuilding<br />
cells work together to remodel it (Kirsty L. Spalding, Ratan D. Bhardwaj, Bruce A.<br />
Bucholz, Henrik Druid, <strong>and</strong> Jonas Frisen. Department of Cell <strong>and</strong> Molecular Biology<br />
Medical Nobel Institute. Department of Forensic Medicine Karolinska Institute,<br />
Stockholm Sweden. Cell, Vol 122, 133-143, July 15, 2005.).<br />
• Fat cells are replaced at the rate of about 10% per year in adults. So you could say that<br />
on average, human beings replace all their fat cells about every ten years.<br />
Interestingly <strong>and</strong> significantly there are three exception to this decay process:<br />
• Neurons in the cerebral cortex are never replaced. There are no neurons added to<br />
your cerebral cortex after birth. Any cerebral cortex neurons that die are not replaced.<br />
(Jonas Frisen, "Neocortical Nerve Cells Are Not Renewed New Method Shows,"<br />
Medline News Today, August 15, 2006).<br />
• Cardiomyocyte heart cells are replaced at a reducing rate as we age. At age 25,<br />
about 1% of cells are replaced every year. Replacement slows gradually to about 0.5%<br />
at age 70. Even in people who have lived a very long life, less than half of the<br />
cardiomyocyte cells have been replaced. Those that aren’t replaced have been there<br />
since birth.<br />
• cells in the inner portion of the crystalline lens of our eyes. Lens cells are like skin cells<br />
in structure, but are totally unlike skin in lifespan. The skin renews itself daily; whereas<br />
the lens never loses cells. The lens does add more cells to the outside of the lens, but<br />
the oldest ones inside have been there since before birth.<br />
As a physicist I see three possibilities for the material world which made up the body of Adam<br />
<strong>and</strong> Eve.<br />
1. All process of the material realm was iso-entropic. Adam <strong>and</strong> Eve remained youthful as they<br />
were created. It does not mean they never would have had children, not that there would not<br />
be any changes or events in the world they lived. This I believe was the situation before the<br />
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