A couple of years ago, there was this information flowing around on the internet that “immortality is mathematically impossible”, and as an average consumer I just accepted it. Today, it randomly clicked me that I should ask why.
Q1: Is this claim even true? Because we already know that immortal jellyfishes exist and they can reverse aging (hopefully I’m not wrong here).
Q2: How does math play a role in this claim? (really curious about this one)
Lastly: I don’t know if i should flair this post as ‘Biology’ or ‘Math’?
In: Mathematics
You can have an individual organism that just keeps repairing itself or replacing itself, but that all takes energy. Life takes energy, and there’s only a finite amount of usable energy in the universe. Even if the only living thing in the universe were a single immortal jellyfish and the material required for it to sustain itself, it would eventually use up all the energy and it would no longer be alive.
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