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To: Tom C who wrote (1010)	9/9/2000 9:50:17 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1426

OFF TOPIC--AGING, LIVING FOREVER AND OTHER CONCEITS: Some things to consider: --there is nothing but the Divine --everything arises in, and is lived by the Divine --we are no exception --we are separated from the Divine ONLY by the self-contraction. --the Divine can be realized Best wishes, Jim

To: Tom C who wrote (1010)	9/10/2000 2:38:28 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1426

OT ... OT ... OT ... OT ... OT Tom C, In spite of my own reservations about the "science" in Apakhabar's message, I was inclined to leave the issue as he had suggested: Just drop me a PM and we'll go from there. (No, I did not pursue the matter with him). Though I share your skepticism, countering his "ethereal science" with arguments based on more bad science will not resolve the issue. The air does not normally contain carbon atoms. Pure clean air would not contain carbon atoms. Burning wood or coal would release carbon into the air. If this were true, then "pure clean air" would not sustain life as we know it. In addition entering the atmosphere by burning of carbon based materials, carbon (dioxide) is returned to the air by animals that breath oxygen, while plants "breath" carbon dioxide and release oxygen. These complementary uses of the air by living organisms, and maintaining a reasonable balance of the two in the atmosphere, are fundamental to the global ecosystem. Carbon is a pretty stable atom. I'd love to have the half life of carbon. Do diamonds (compressed carbon) decay? I doubt that Apakhabar was talking about radioactive decay. Though it's hard to infer what "complex organization" he was talking about, I assumed it was the collective organization of all these atoms to which he referred. If he was talking about radioactive decay, implying that it could be retarded with a chemical process involving silicon is way off base, but that does not disallow the existence of silicon in a vapor form. Silicon is an atom (a basic element). If it is vaporized what would it be? Well, as you say, 1: to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into a vapor. It would still be silicon, but rather than as a lump of solid or molten silicon, existing as individual atoms separated by space, or more likely due to practical considerations of maintaining a gaseous form, a component of a molecule involving one or more other elements (e.g., hydrogen or oxygen). Since silicon is such an important element to the micro electronics industry, all kinds of research has been conducted and processes developed for depositing silicon in thin layers, including the process of vapor deposition. A quick search on the internet yields many references to such things, including this abstract of a paper delivered to a meeting of the American Physical Society, probably the premier association of professional physicists in the world. (As I'm sure you know, graphite, like diamond, is a form of solid carbon but with a very different "complex organization".) aps.org The notion of exposing carbon atoms to vaporized silicon is not without scientific merit, though it's a far stretch to go from there to demonstrating that it results in some chemical bonding leading to introducing silicon into a living organism in such a way as to reverse the aging process, and even a farther stretch to demonstrate that the mere exposure of carbon to silicon has some lasting effect on the carbon itself that gives it some new property enabling it to better maintain its bonds with other elements. Dan