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 a bunch of malarkey on several levels.
You can’t even really consider a person as one thing on an “atomic” level. You are constantly gaining and losing atoms in your body so that just about none of the atoms in your body are the ones that were there when you were born. The atoms in your body are ancient. They are older than Earth. The hydrogen atoms in your body are as old as the universe. A good portion of them have probably been through the bodies of other people more than a few times.
Atoms don’t really have “memory” of what they’ve been through. Two carbon-12 atoms will be intentional, no matter what they’ve been through.
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