Originally Posted By: Bill S.

This line of reasoning bears no relation to the reality we observe. The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical concept, and like all mathematical “infinities” is really only “boundless”.

Manifestly, a plant or animal cannot grow to infinity. As someone who, rightly, places great emphasis on observation, I am surprised that you resort to this.

IMO, it would be more accurate to say that the growth of these organisms is truncated by some natural limit, rather than by some artificial limit.


See I do believe in the science of observation, so how do we age and die :-)

Given your response above we must die based upon genetic termination or tragedy a common view even among scientists.

I have a problem with that if it was a simple effect we should have seen a truncation of it by now given our population numbers. The genetics scientists should have also seen something by now.

So you either believe aging and death is like Asimovs 3 robots law its programmed into our core and can't be truncated or there is an unseen not understood effect at play. I am actually working with a QM group on the later but its way off thread here so if you are interested Bill S lets take it to another thread under the reference of quantum biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology) a reasonable layman background (http://www.anti-agingfirewalls.com/2011/05/23/quantum-biology/). Genetics goes at the problem (http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-secrets-life-sought-dna-elderly.html)

My final comment is to look at the honey fungus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria)

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The largest single organism (of the species Armillaria solidipes) covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2) and is thousands of years old


Given enough time and food how big do you think this guy can get and yes it is one of the things the group is studying :-)


Last edited by Orac; 10/27/11 05:27 AM.
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