Friday, December 21, 2007

Death by Biological Black Hole

Previously on this blog, I posited a hypothesis about the existence of biological black holes.

Basically, I extrapolated my idea from an explanation of how supermassive [astrophysical] black holes are integral to the formation of galaxies.

To restate my hypothesis on the existence of biological black holes:

1. Sperm and egg cells contain vast (relative to their size) stores of energy.

2. When a sperm cell penetrates an egg, either the collision of the two cells' energy stores or the "combustibility" of the fuel that results from combining the two cells' energy stores results in an explosion.

3. This explosion, ultimately, results in the formation of a biological black hole that feeds off the fuel, like an astrophysical black hole feeds off its quasar.

4. The biological black hole causes matter to condense---the creation of cells (analogous to the creation of stars).

5. The continued functioning of the black hole pushes those cells outward, eventually forming the body.

6. The biological black hole feeds until its fuel (its "quasar") is gone and then enters a (relative) "quiet" state.

This hypothesis addresses the formation of the physical component of "life."

Might it also explain the formation of the physical status we call "death"?

Here's what I'm thinking.

As I said in my initial piece, my thoughts here were prompted by two programs on astrophysical black holes, one on supermassive black holes and one on Stephen Hawking's theory of the information paradox.

One fact I gleaned from these programs is that, while scientists theorize and prove mathematically the destructive power of black holes, and they do attribute some movement of stars to the effect of black holes, no one yet has been able to image matter actually being sucked into a black hole and, supposedly, disappearing (at least from human sight).

[This brings up the question of the information paradox, as proposed and later elaborated upon (some say repudiated), by Stephen Hawking . However, I am putting the information paradox, and all its associated controversy, aside for the moment.]

What I am wondering about is this:

On the one hand, a scientist noted that our galaxy, the Milky Way, has hundreds of millions of black holes, and that there may be many, many small black holes throughout the realm in which we live---as the scientist said, for example, there may be black holes "in this room or in my head."

On the other hand, since, according to scientists, black holes retain their destructive power after they stop feeding on their quasars and enter a (relatively) quiet state, why are they not wreaking measurable or image-able destruction wherever they occur? Why has no one been able to image matter / information entering a black hole?

I wondered if, in the ying and yang that seems to characterize all that exists, the destructive force of black holes is countered by some force or phenomenon that acts as a black-hole shield.

I also contemplated how the continued, though apparently at times abated, destructive power of black holes would function in my hypothesis of the existence of biological black holes. (I am also now calling these biological black holes "primal" black holes, as they are present at and integral to the formation of a living entity and remain associated with that entity until the entity no longer exists in its present form.)

Here's an idea:

If biological black holes exist and function to form new physical structures (such as a human body), then we could hypothesize that, like astrophysical black holes, biological black holes persist in a quiet state and retain their destructive potential.

This, then, would be a way to explain the physical component of the process we call "death."

The hypothesis of death by biological black hole would go like this:

Death of a biological entity, such as a human body, occurs when that entity's associated biological black hole (the bbh formed when the energy stores of the sperm and egg collided or combined to create an explosion, and which then condenses the matter and pushes it into the form of the entity) becomes reactivated and begins to feed off the entity's presently unrecognized cellular energy stores.

(These energy stores go beyond what we know about mitichondrial-produced energy and so on. They are along the lines of nuclear energy. I will call this energy ozz.)

The biological black hole sucks increasing amounts of energy (ozz) out of the body.

(Again, it must be emphasized that here "energy" has a much broader, though presently undefined, meaning than its usual usage in biology. Moreover, since the form of this energy is unknown, the way it is stored and how it is associated with the body is unknown. Therefore, to state the biological black holes sucks energy (ozz) "out of the body" means something like "out of the body and its associated energy stores.")

As the biological black hole depletes the body's ozz, the body begins to die. If not interrupted, the reactivated biological black hole continues to feed off the body's ozz (associated energy stores) until the body is dead and, ultimately, decomposed.

As we observe, the process of death can be fast or slow. It can be sudden or appear to be sudden. If what we call the physical component of death is essentially the reabsorbtion of the body's matter / information into that body's associated (primal) biological black hole, then what causes or allows the reabsorbtion at one point in time, but not others?

IOW, if a biological black hole, like an astrophysical black hole, remains at all times able to destroy---in this hypothesis, to induce the process we call "death" in living entities---why does death occur one day and not another? Why does a particular event cause death in one entity but not in a seemingly similarly situated entity? What abates the destructive power of the black hole until death occurs?

This abatement could be related to the size of the entity's ozz stores. The more ozz, the more protected the body is against the destructive power of its associated black hole. And perhaps the entity's ozz stores can be influenced by what we call "healthy choices."

Or it could be that the primal biological black hole is not actually quiet after construction of the body, but rather that it has a different energy source it feeds on while it appears "quiet." But at some point this different energy source is depleted. Then the primal biological black hole taps into the entity's ozz and feeds on it until the physical component of death and decomposition of the body is complete or sufficiently interrupted.

What we view as "sudden death," then, would be the visible result of a sudden ozz depletion caused by sudden voraciousness of the entity's primal biological black hole.

In any event, if it were proved correct that biological (primal) black holes formed entities' physical component---such as a human body, then I would hypothesize that death occurs by the destructive force of those black holes.

What do you think?

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