Cosmology is about every thing after big bang. Cosmogony AT BIG BANG OR BEFORE ( if time existed before 0). Creation of universe in which I am, is NOT the product of any God or intelligent designer. Even excluding the morons, there are many narratives of creation not dependent on these insanity - all important cosmogonies are linked next. None are falsifiable.
It appeared to me that string theory and loop quantum gravity are special in that they serve to unite the two theories of physics that have not united despite every top physicist in last two centuries despite herculean effort by thousands of best scientist in a century. These are quantum mechanics generalized to yield string theory.Loop Quantum Gravity LQG specializes Einstein gravity. These two have no known contradictory phenomena but refuse to mix to any quantum gravity and are perfect descriptions of the very small and astronomy.
suggest you download the free book and spend the best 10 hours of life reading it. If you are in true super hurry, I wrote a link. At least it will introduce you to cosmology and introduce NASA some to you.
Cosmology is the result of full-time work by 1000,000 humans for over a century - by far more than any soothsayer moron and done with rational skepticism - trust no one but the force of logic that only leaves a tiny amount. All the developments in space, so far, are for rational skeptics, for astronomy be they LIGO, valley sized radio telescopes, trip to moon, space telescopes in every part of spectrum, rockets etc. It is stupid to trust a single guru, experience, ancient tomes etc.
Life evolved on earth around DNA because the proto-DNA solved a deep problem that all competing DNA-likes had - there are no exclusion genes, but earth-DNA achieved that by making Repair exclusive to reproduction! This is done by tight coiling (off) of DNA-gene in reproduction and lose winding in repair. Such simplicity gives massive advantages to that DNA, which survives a billion years and has carpet ted earth surface and unimaginable ocean depths.
Apart from extensions to Darwin's theory, this narrative explains Horvath clock in different DNA species of plants, animals, human in cells of all kinds - blood, muscle etc. A Y counter theory will have to explain Horvath clock every where, and commonality of DNA. One can explain Darwin using Watson-Crick DNA and even the latter by Sinclair exclusion behavior. It unites chemistry and biology. No extra reason to believe in his practice regarding reduction in ageing except capability, Horvath tests, needs no money, looks young, father doing well and practicing, plausibility (consistency with evolution). These collectively allow a rational skeptic like me to adopt a follow attitude on anecdotal evidence as I can not afford to wait for statistical proof!
Here I expect discordant opinion of friends. However, one must be in position of second religion - what if the current belief have to be stopped? In that case, a scientific religion is first choice, even though impossible to unite. The very fact that scientists are in general most trustworthy of all implies to me that they follow an undeclared common religion. Every scientist must never find his/her axioms from history, tomes, inheritance etc. What remains is the universal fact of death. Be it soviets or Americans, no advanced civilization ever accepts stupid organized religions (repeat ALL). Yet the absence does not lead to promiscuous offshoot uncivilized christian of the dark ages. It requires no belief but in eventual death and a DESIRE TO LEAD A HAPPY LIFE! It is hard to believe a religion can follow from this, but it does, enough to say Hindu is my alternate religion and stoicism underlies my value system.
My father lived to be 88, would have lived to 98 (I think0 BUT FOR HIS WEAKNESS RE MANGOES. For men, metformin AND acarbose synergestically work better than each other, while both improve healthy life. Acarbose fails longevity in women. Both benefit from rapamycin, though toxic in long use. As a diabetic on both, I expect to live 15 years beyond my undiabetic life! 98 to 110 with current interventions. NMN targets Sirtuin, Metformin targets AMPk while rapamycin target mTOR pathway.
The present meta-analysis aimed to evaluate metformin combined with acarbose compared with monotherapy with either of the two drugs for type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Relevant trials were retrieved through searching PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang and Chongqing VIP information network databases. Heterogeneous and homogeneous data were statistically combined using a random- and fixed-effects model, respectively. For dichotomous and continuous data, the merged effect size was presented as the risk ratio (RR) and weighted mean differences (WMD), respectively, with 95% confidence interval (CI). All included studies were divided into subgroups. A Funnel plot was used to detect publication bias. Review Manager 5.2 software was applied to perform the statistical analyses. Meta-analysis revealed that compared with metformin monotherapy, combined therapy was significantly more efficacious regarding indexes including the total effective rate, fasting blood glucose (FBG), blood glucose levels at two post-prandial hours (2HPG) and hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c). Similarly, combined therapy showed advantages on indexes including FBG, 2HPG and HbA1c over acarbose therapy after 4 months of treatment. In conclusion, the findings of the present meta-analysis suggested that combined therapy of metformin and acarbose appears to be more efficacious than metformin or acarbose monotherapy.
Recognizing that aging can be targeted, the NIH developed the NIA Interventions Testing Program (ITP). The ITP tests diets, drugs, or other interventions to see if they prevent disease and extend lifespan in genetically heterogeneous (outbred) mice (http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-program-itp). This program is conducted at multiple centers in order to control for laboratory-specific environmental differences, and testing is done in both male and female animals (Miller et al., 2007; Nadon et al., 2008). Major findings of the ITP include that nordihydroguaiaretic acid and aspirin each increase lifespan of male mice (Strong et al., 2008) and acarbose and 17-α-Estradiol extend mouse lifespan preferentially in males (Harrison et al., 2014). Studies of rapamycin (an mTOR inhibitor) have established the most compelling evidence for targeting aging. When rapamycin is administered late in life, it extends lifespan (Harrison et al., 2009; Miller et al., 2011), slows aging in a dose-dependent manner, shows differential effects by sex (Wilkinson et al., 2012), and is synergistic with metformin.
who am I - prologue: At 25, I finished my Computer Science PhD.D thesis defense, and stood outside math science tall building with knowledge that the next strong memorial convocation happens with the degree roll for me. I had completed the mercy-less program and I was an employee at Boston doing software for the US army, best I could do, and worst according to my guide, who had become my father and hence took the position as me a misguided young man! His scornful look zeroed my pleasure and I was agitated. The program took me 3.5 years of toil and ended successfully. "What next?" I asked myself, worried by yet another Father I had upset. That fateful afternoon, I decided I will spend the next 4 years of my life (as long as I spent on PhD.) or less, and answer it well to answer my doubts - who am I.
deepest? A life went by. I am 65 about 40 years later and have finally been able to answer it to my satisfaction. How was I to know that this question is deepest in philosophy and touches all aspects of my life. You, my dear reader should read it once to answer it for your own self. Many times to begin to know me. It is unique in how much the question is covered.
writing style: It is written in a particular style, similar to how every intelligent scientist I encountered in the last 40 years whose style I could parse, think, and so do all top professors. I call it Socrates/style. Throughout, phrases with a slash, are mine with detailed semantics as per me and grossly, but not in fine details, without ever being surprising coarsely. In it, a question is asked, constraints on solution are imposed, and then one researches the answer, which might be simple or deepest like what I asked, depth not known. It has no relations to events in my life, most events are much better understood now. Its epistemology, like all science, is falsifiability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability. That here can even be the answer to "Who am I" is a 2020 miracle, never before in human existence [I prove it]!
Plethora of sub-questions: The question resolves into many more. For each there is a falsifiable (scientific) answer here. All religions are equally stupid, they are all equal so [I prove it. What is the universe around me - society, people, stars. What is life I have and how valuable - my own, family, friends and soldiers who fight for me. What is death, is there an afterlife, can I influence it? What is ageing, how can I minimize its harmful impact on self and loved once? What is medicine and sickness. How does one minimize its harmful impact? How does one distinguish money-drive salesmen and genuine value adders. How does one escape advertising and use it profitably! How does one escape politics and use it profitably. What is history, baloney and use if well? How to escape those who understand this. What is law and semantics? What is consciousness? Can one make Artificial Intelligence AI to understand and do what lawyers, doctors, teachers, maintain robots, white-collar jobs. How will post-industrial world function? Can robots be conscious? Who, what, how to believe? What makes society around me function. Who am I?
40 years later: I will answer in subsequent pages. Just the width of sub queries is frightening to all but religious. I consider those beliefs to be uncivilized and support measures to drive them underground. The basis of all questions asked above is science, and lack of any belief in Any book or tome except as detailed by active rational skeptics whose words are treasured as representative of me. Even then, unless old enough to withstand active scientific investigation, else the statements are not a theory but a hypothesis. My great belief in Talib and Sinclair are such that their statements are hypotheses. There are All religions whose every contradictory statement means the converse is likely a hypothesis (Mal/hypothesis)!
what is science: pointless to talk about scientific without knowing what it is. Every religious moron will use the word unscientifically, in fact a collusion between his beliefs and science, not even knowing it is impossible. By Popper definition, generally accepted, science is a collection of falsifiable theories! Not one religious idiot considers religious facts as falsifiable! That is a negative constraint on what science can not be. On the positive side, science is rational skepticism, you only accept testable empiric, never believe unless it meets your logic! If accepted science fails, then your logic is faulty. It never happens with ordinary things. Extremes of size and speed in science force you into quantum mechanics and linear logic. Except quantum phenomena, ordinary propositional logic and predicate calculus suffices. There is nothing more laughable and scornful more than a stupid religious joker applying quantum mechanics to anything.
Who fails the Popper test? Not only do all religions fail, so do many phenomena considered scientific - like multiverse, what happens in a black hole, why is vacuum energy what it is etc. There is an element of rigorous deduction, inviolable known science axioms - limiting to new axioms not tested to today. Even then, it is not science. Science has no claims to be known all ever, it is that ALL religions fail unfalsifiability! ALL sub animal politicians have to become proficient in the art of attractive meaninglessness which can not fail! Said my favorite emfubar Sir - Modi failed Corona, not because he copied west like the US and UK, and failed to follow east like Japan and Sweden (sic) ; but because he failed to follow the Indian way! Not a word about the superior Indian way! The explanation of Modi errors - so many of them - is simple, he is afraid of Sir. Sir Trump is a failure because he is not properly patriotic enough! Why do you think the intelligent Americans never argue with an Indian brahmin saint ever again?
outline of answers? This text was not possible before 2020 before I read Dr. Sinclair (Harvard) aging theory of information I applied to self as derived digilog theory two weeks after I read and saw some benefit. I tested positively once on self, will again test on the month mark then life long on the annual mark. I suggest this digilog schedule and its understanding. Best I can suggest is to read and intern his book published in 2019. It is a scientific theory (falsifiable) and not dependent on any authority but sequence of experiments that all can try. I myself have formulated some empirical tests to try the digilog theory. Will be budgeted and done. Unless I could apply myself successfully, writing the rest of the questions is a waste of my time.
Next contents Prolog What is the universe around me - astronomy
Society - What is it around me
People - What is it around me
What is life
My religion
Value of my life
Value of life to family
Importance of friends
Dedication to soldiers
What is death
Afterlife
Can I influence it?
What is ageing
How can I minimize its impact on self
Impact on loved once
Money-driven salesmen
Advertising profitably
Escape politics
Politics profitably
What is history
Historical baloney
Abuse of politics
How to escape those who understand this
Non formal law
Semantic genuine value adders
Consciousness
Artificial Intelligence AI
AI - do what lawyers
AI -do what doctors
AI -do what teachers
AI -maintain robots
AI -white-collar
How will post-industrial world function?
Can robots be conscious
Who to believe
What to believe
How to believe
What makes society around me function
Who am I?
mea culpa. International emfubar capitalists spread a web around me using slyly bought doctors causing significant money damage to me in the past! Ros or reactive oxygen series is usefully suppressed in some but harmfully in other cases. Using quote from the Grand master <Through the 1970s and 1980s, Harman and hundreds of other researchers
tested whether antioxidants would extend the lifespan of animals. FALSE.
If old habits die hard, the free-radical idea is heroin. The theory was
overturned
by scientists within the cloisters of my field more than a decade ago, yet it is still
widely perpetuated by purveyors of pills and drinks, who fuel a $3 billion global
industry. Arlan Richardson and Holly Van Remmen spent about a decade at the
University of Texas at San Antonio testing if increasing free-radical damage or mutations in mice led to aging; it didn’t.>
I wish this research was published three years ago. Would have saved me lot of money and stupid belief. NMN was ok since it was anti-oxidant. so was coQ10 and even mitoQ. You took for free radicals. Even if I was not suffering a disease, anti-oxidants improved my age!
Mortality in Randomized Trials of Antioxidant Supplements for Primary an d Secondary Prevention: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17327526/
As for chem-blind nothing like rapamycin, good in infrequent small doses only for higher or frequent doses hurt kidney.damage to ventilator
Now a strong advice, severely effected covid patients, must be given iv resveratrol since damage to ventilator-bound-patient's lungs is not by Covid but cytotkine storm.For long life, resveratrol supplementation has known no evil side-effects and relaxes cytokine by sirt1!
Overexpression of SIRT1 Protects Pancreatic Beta-Cells Against Cytokine Toxicity by Suppressing the Nuclear factor-kappaB Signaling Pathway https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19008341/
Note that resveratrol can be safely added to ordered drugs
