our cells replace themselves so the cells you have at 50 are different than the cells when you are 10. If you kept the same cells all your life you would eventually 'wear down', but that isn't what is going on in biology.
Certinaly our cells replicate. And you'd probably be right that if they didn't we'd wear out a whole lot faster than we do through a natural death. Lets extend my meaning a bit further then. Why, if our cells replicate, is this not an ongoing process within our bodies when life (biology) is continually going? I know that telomeres play a large role in cell aging/death. What should happen if we could reverse any of these processes? Why do we die Modulous? I guess that's the simplest way to word the question.
Scientific laws are usually formal statements rather than 'things die'.
That's exactly my point. Why haven't any formal statements concerning death have been annotated somewhere in the annals of physical law? Its seems like such a profound law that the phenomena should be rightly named. I guess I'm just looking for something more cerebral than just saying 'everything that lives will eventually die.'
I suppose one could say that there is an empirical law of death. I think it is simpler to refer to fact of death than require some kind of law (because theoretically a life could exist that would never die of old age).
Theoretically life could exist apart from death. But nothing has managed to stave off death indefinitely. If it is factually accurate to say that everything that lives will eventually die, why not refer to that as a formal law, such as Newtons laws of motion? Its so profound and nothing has been able to circumvent the authority of death that I scarcely see why we shouldn't assign it a formal name.
The population would still have a peak value at which level enough members do not survive long enough to reproduce. This would have the effect of balancing the population size out (we see it today anyway - most organisms do not live long enough to die of old age).
My scenario was assuming that all organisms died of old age rather than from accidental death or succumbing to predation. What affects would that have on all populations? As a result, almost all organisms might invariably die at younger ages than their progenitors.
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