Is it possible to create the Elixir of life?
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You might want to actually consider taking a CHEMISTRY class before you talk like that.  There will never be an Elixir of life, people will continue to die, the best we can do is expand lifespan by treating disease and illness.
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i think it's impossible honestly!!!!!!! ask a fortuneteller perhaps. let me know if u find out the other ways!
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No.  Obviously life exists despite the second law of thermodynamics.  The chemical processes associated with living organisms use energy from the surrounding evironment to create more order.  Our evolutionary ancestors did that too.  I see no way in which evolution contradicts the second law of thermodynamics any more than the existance of life does.
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Perhaps the most famous of these experiments is called the Miller-Urey experiment. Using water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen to simulate primordial earth, and a little electrical coaxing, Miller managed to form 13 of the 21 amino acids organisms use to build proteins, and nucleic acids, mostly in the form of adenine.\n\nThere are some caveats, whether this is actually the composition of the primordial soup has been called into question, and the presence of some molecules, oxygen for example, ceased all biological molecules from forming. We really don't know what the environment was, but the important thing to take away from the experiment is that it's absolutely possible for organic molecules to spring from a random collection of chemicals.\n\nOpponents of evolution like to use the idea of a typewriter factory exploding and forming a dictionary as an allegory for spontaneous creation of a cell. For a fully formed cell to be produced spontaneously certainly is impossible, one of the leading hypothosises is that, as with everything else in evolution, it started in steps, the explosion at the typewriter factory didn't for a dictionary, it formed a word. The first form of life was probably little else than some RNA molecule that managed to replicate, more advanced structures took more time to develop. Interestingly enough, it's now thought that mitochondria were an ancient bacteria that formed a symbiotic relationship with larger cells, a relationship that was so successful, all future life was based on it, this is why they still retain their own genetic information.
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yes it is possible but not practical, if you want more info contact me.
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Hey there dragonberry..\nYes, I do believe it's possible. ;)
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Well, there's been much speculation whether another element would be able to be the "base" for a life form. Silicon is indeed one theory. However, I have also heard speculation that life without carbon is impossible. \n\n   Carbon is probably the most versatile element there is. There is an infinite variety and number of life forms that could be made out of it. It's structure allows many shapes of carbon to form, rings, and chains, and more, and it allows lots different molecules and elements to hook on to the structure. Seeing as all life forms i know of are formed out of only Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and sulpher, the ability to make proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and fats out of these elements is essential, and something like silicon probably wouldn't do it.
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Most probably. Life is complex chemistry composed of surprisingly simple components. We can make them in labs and we have found them in meteorites, the tails of comets and in insterstellar molecular clouds. So because all the ingredients are common in space there should be atleast one other place were they can interact with each other for a very long period of time with time being the magic ingredient. It took about 800 million years for life to emerge on the primordial earth. Some stars don´t even live for 80 million years but most stars in the universe are small and stable. Kind of like the sun.
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design it just like any other plant, however this is realyl complicated.  I bet you 10 points nobody answers this correctly.
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That would be an enormous capacitor to be built, and yet the charge of a lighting bolt will vaporize such a huge capacitor, the answer is no, it not possible..☺
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most things that scientists have made are duplicates of what God has already created but they have not be able to make LIFE. They cant make "real human" because the source of life is with God.
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I'm not sure, but I remember reading somewhere that it can be done.\n\nK
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Sorry, I can't give an answer from a legal perspective. All I know and believe, you don't create yourself, only God did. Your life is in His hand, the Creator.
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No ! But is this what you wanted ?\nRefer :\nhttp://www.holistic.com/holistic/learning.nsf/d92340ab92bae3928725690500812e66/6d6ad242c4e75c9c87256b8f00021919!OpenDocument
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It is theoretically possible to make anything a gas (including that).  It would take way too much energy to do so though.
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No.  Firstly, no elements are "made" on earth apart from synthetic ones.  All elemental fusion takes place in stars\n\nSecondly, only the elements up to iron are capable of being formed inside a star.  Energetically, it's the wall.  Anything with a higher atomic number than iron can only be formed under the action of a supernova explosion.  Supernovae then seed the interstellar dust with these heavier elements, which eventually coalesce under the effects of gravity to form new stars, and, presumably, planetary systems.  Given the number of new extrasolar planets found recently, this seems to be a relatively common phenomenon.\n\nSo, all the gold on Earth was formed in a supernova explosion, and when the dust particles that condensed out of that explosion gathered together to form the Earth, a small amount of gold was present.  That's where it all came from!\n\nAs Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "We are all star-stuff."
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Then defend it... I say that there is no way that a random chance process could have formed life forming proteins and DNA with their unique chirality. If proteins and DNA were formed by chance  each and every one of the components would be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. This is not what we see in natural proteins or in natural DNA. How can a random chance natural process create proteins with thousands of "L" molecules, and then also create DNA with billions of "R" molecules? Does this sound like random chance or a product of design? Even if \nthere were a magic process to introduce chirality, it would only create one isomer. If such a process existed, we do not know anything about it or how it would work. If it did exist, how were compounds with the other chirality ever formed? Even if there were two magical processes, one for each isomer, what determined which process  was used and when it was used, if this was a random chance natural process? The idea of two processes requires a controlling mechanism, and this kind of control is not possible in a random chance natural process.\nYou are an intelligent man alot smarter than a mere theist so I don't think I need to explain chirality more thoroughly. You just need to defend your statement... Too bad you can't now that you have this informant ion.....   Jim