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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 11:42:47 EDT
Subject: Quantum life extensions

I have said before how I see life as a  large dimension number effect in the 
quantum domain.  My problem here is: How much dimensions are used by life? 
The physical limit on the dimensional number is somewhere in the 10^25 range. 
Call this limit number N and P the life limit. Life forms use interactions 
between a number of atoms, depending on the number of atoms involved the 
number of dimensions will get more or less large.

So, assume all dimensions are used up to P simultaneously, all of them must 
then be included in a single system somewhere. In other words, the sum from 1 
to P must be at most equal to N. That sum is : (P + 1)P/2  (you have P/2  
paired numbers of the kind: P+1, (P-1)+2, (P-2)+3, and so on). This is near 
P^2/2 for large P. For even larger P and simple order of magnitude estimate, 
this is in the range of P^2, that is, P is near the square root of N or 10^12 
and something.

For  the x/n functions, taking n = 10^12 turn out into a scale near 100 m. 
That tell us two things:
1/ the largest living beings must be at most 100 m long, not a bad guess.
2/ The maximum longevity must be set by the decoherence time of a 100 m large 
x/n wave function.

Because 1/ and 2/ are directly linked, if one is true the other must be too. 
From observation 1/ is true, so that 2/ must be and that give us the 
decoherence time of a 100 meters wave function: Some centuries. 

The larger the x/n wave function, the weaker it get and the smaller its 
interactions with similar waves. On the other hand, in life that wave is 
linked to the xn one and the larger n, the shorter the wavelength and the 
higher the energy it has. If high energy wave must be disturbed by weak 
energy ones, it is not surprising that the whole process is fairly long.

Now I get back to my favorite subject: Black Magic.

Assume we have a quantum computer able to deal with up to 10^12 dimensions, 
that is, it is at least 10^12 bits able. This is fairly large when you think 
850 bits or so are sufficient for a simulation including all the observable 
Universe ( outside life to be sure!). This computer could put a larger part 
of the wave function of atoms in a living body into high rank dimensions. 
This would produce a harder structure able to withstand more perturbations 
and so ready to live longer, may be far more indeed.

Assume now we have an even larger computer with may be up to 10^25 bits and 
as much dimensions to work with. It could pick up dimensionnal packs under 
the P value and put them anywhere between P and N. This would reduce 
interaction with the environment in a drastic way. Near N, the longevity 
would be at least equal the the solar system past life. If both 
possibilities, use of near N dimensions and large part of the wave function 
in high nuber dimension was exploited simultaneously, a life structure could 
endure for at least the star shining time of the Universe, something as 10^18 
years or 100 000 000 times the age of the current space-time we live in.

Incredibly prodigious? Well, think the physics behind that is only a non 
relativistic quantum mechanics theory found in every textbook on the subject 
for more than sixty years now.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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