When we die and subsequently stop breathing, our brain and nerve cells die within a few minutes due to the lack of oxygen.
Once a person dies though, his or her body enters the so-called “twilight of death.”
After the brain and nerve cells the heart, liver, kidneys and pancreas come to die (in about an hour), and then the skin, tendons, heart valves and cornea are next. But they will last about a day. The white blood cells even keep going for almost three days before finally shutting down.
In some sense, some parts of your body live an itsy-bitsy tad of a bit longer than yourself as a whole.
But that’s not the scary thing about the twilight of death.
In a matter of days (sometimes even hours) after the individual is declared dead, gene transcription — the first step of gene expression, where a segment of DNA is copied into RNA — starts to take place. And the consequences are beyond horrible.
For years, researchers have observed that recipients of donor organs (such as livers) often exhibit increased risk of cancer following a transplant, and nowadays some researchers really think that there could be a deep link between “twilight of death” gene transcription and this increased cancer risk.
In a blind panic, some cells try to survive the death of their host, and attempt to repair themselves in a last attempt to remain in “life mode.”
And it is in that “state of mind” that the early seeds of cells-going-berserk are born, before an actual cancer surfaces much later in the recipient of the donor organ.
If you travel few centuries back in time and try to explain to the people of Roman empire non tangible concepts about software,artificial intelligence,quantum computing, what would their reaction be?
They probably won’t understand horseshit because these concepts are beyond their realm of understanding and intelligence. We have come to quantum computing step by step and not with a giant leap.
So how can you expect to comprehend the technology and the biological form of some alien being who are maybe 1 million years or 1 billion years older than us when we can’t explain our technology to ourselves few hundred years back.
They will be so advanced that we won’t be able to recognise them if they stood near us.
According to cosmologist Paul Davies,
Yup that’s him. He believes that we’d be lucky to recognise a billion year advanced beings. They may not be made of matter at all. They may not have any physical form, not constrained by space and time, they won’t act or think like we do.
We might not be alone. Even at this moment we might be surrounded by these advanced beings and not comprehend them at all. They might be watching you behind your back as you upvote this.
Our entire existence resides within a black hole.
13.8 billion years ago, all that is known to us was blasted into existence through what scientists call the “Big Bang”. Before this, there was nothing: time never ticked; stars never shone; no one saw the light of the day, nor the dark of the night.
The fabric of space and time was non-existent.
Or was it?
Other scientists theorize that a moment before the Big Bang all the energy and mass of the nascent universe that would later become our home was compressed into a dense and finite speck- a seed of a universe.
This minuscule seed, though trillions of times smaller than any atoms observed by the human race, would lead to the creation of galaxies, stars, and planets- a God particle, it may be called.
But, the real question remains: how?
One idea circulated for many years, most notably by Nikodem Poplawski of the University of New Haven, is that this seed was generated within the most extreme environments known to man- a black hole.
It fits.
It has been debated upon for many years, the existence of a multiverse- an array of many universes existing side by side. What cannot be figured is how one universe may link to another.
Well, if a seed of a universe is anything like one of a planet, it will be “a chunk of essential material, tightly compressed, hidden inside a protective shell.”
What are black holes? They are dead corpses of stars, produced once stars run out of fuel, and their core collapses inwards. The temperature reaches a billion degrees; the gravity becomes more fierce a force than ever, with a grip that pulls much inside; electrons are shredded and atoms are crumpled.
The pull of the black hole becomes so severe that not even a beam of light can escape it. These enormous black holes have been discovered at the center of nearly every galaxy, including our very own, the Milky Way.
But there’s a problem.
If one uses Einstein’s theory to calculate what lay at the bottom of a black hole, they will discover a singularity- a hypothetical concept that is both infinitely dense and infinitely small.
But infinities aren’t usually found in nature.
Many suggest that the disconnect is found with Einstein’s calculations, which may result in wonderful calculations for most of the cosmos, but break down in the face of humongous forces such as black holes.
Physicists suggest that there is a point in a black hole where matter may be crushed no further- a seed with the weight of a billion suns that is, unlike a singularity, real.
The compacting process halts due to the spinning force of the black holes (said to be at the speed of light), which pass onto the seed a huge amount of torsion, which may, at any given moment, unravel in an event as immense as the Big Bang.
A black hole may be a door separating different universes- a link.
If one dares to tumble inside of a black hole, they could find themselves (or whatever shredded particles remain of their being), in a whole other universe completely.
And though our own universe has been expanding ever since our moment billions of years ago, we could still be hidden behind a black hole’s event horizon.
