Someone at work brought this up and my head almost exploded because it sounds like total BS. They said if a sedentary mother gave birth to a baby who grew up to become an extreme athlete (ultra marathon runner/someone who just never stopped moving their whole life), technically the baby is “atomically” older because more energy has passed through them. Is this just malarkey?
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That’s not how age works.
Humans reckon age as elapsed time since a specific event, be it birth, the beginning of the universe, the last anniversary of something, etc. Age has nothing to do with energy levels.
Maybe your coworker is thinking the amount of vibrations in the atoms of your body increases as you are more energetic, which means the atoms “travel” further, which… Somehow relates to age? But then things like temperature come into play since the human body regulates it’s temp, so even being energetic over a short period isn’t going to offset the difference in sheer biological age.. I don’t even know what your coworker is trying to say.
The whole thing is probably derived from a very poor understanding of science.
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