What is time as a physical concept? So far, no one has given an exact answer to this most important question for mankind. Time has features that do not fit into our stereotypical ideas about it as a continuous, unidirectional and uniform flow of one of the forms of moving matter. We have learned to measure it, but what exactly we are measuring has remained a mystery to us. Nevertheless, we have had the idea of time as a fast-flowing river of life since childhood. People have always dreamed of prolonging their short existence, wondering why the gods, who gave man a mind, did not endow him with immortality. But some animals seem to have been endowed with …
Living fossils
In the Yearbook of the French Academy of Sciences for 1761, Henry III's court surgeon Ambroise Paré wrote that a huge toad was found in the middle of a broken stone - it was sitting there in a small cavity. There is a lot of other similar evidence.
When the embankment was paved in Toulon (France), in the broken cobblestones they often found "live and extremely tasty lobsters". The same delicacies of the Jurassic period were enjoyed by masons in the Ancona (Adriatic) quarry. In 1818, in a chalk quarry at a depth of 14 meters, in a layer of petrified sea urchins and newts, geologist E. D. Clark stumbled upon three living things. Two soon died and the third. placed in water, began to frolic merrily. As it turned out later, this species disappeared from the face of the earth tens of millions of years ago.
In 1862, the bricklayer S. Goodwin sawed a monolithic one and a half meter stone in the Cattlebrook quarry (Birmingham) and found a toad inside, which then lived for about half an hour.
In different parts of the world, people have more than once found live frogs, crabs, crayfish and snakes, walled up in stones or pieces of coal. Toads with their exceptional endurance became the undisputed leaders here. Moreover, the state of amphibians is not anabiosis or lethargy. The toads did not have muscle atrophy. Found "lucky ones" immediately jumped out of their "cells of immortality." ran away and hid.
In the 19th century, the Frenchman M. Seguin walled up 20 toads in plaster. After 12 years, I opened it and found four "participants in the experiment" alive. In 1825, Dr. Frank planted 12 toads in chunks of limestone and sandstone and buried a meter in the ground. A year later, the toads in the sandstone were dead, and in the limestone they were well-fed, in good health, and even gained weight.
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How did such centenarians manage to hold out inside the breed for so many months and even years - sometimes thousands and millions? According to alchemists, solutions coming from granites and porous limestones contain pontic water - the elixir of long life. Amphibians and other animals found alive in stones could somehow transform this water into the chemical and organic compounds they need.
Great immortals
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi (he lived for almost 121 years) officially holds the palm among centenarians. The unofficial record is held by the Chinese Li Chungyun, who died in 1936 at the age of 246 and left his 24th wife a widow. Aristotle wrote that a priest from the island of Crete lived to be 300 years old.
Actually. the topic of longevity throughout the history of mankind has become so overgrown with myths and legends that it is no longer clear where the truth is and where the lie is. Although the ancients probably really knew some means of prolonging life for a significant period. Mysterious flowers, fruits and sap of certain trees, "water of eternal life", a type of living water in Russian fairy tales, were mentioned as an elixir of immortality in treatises. Secret knowledge was encrypted in treatises on alchemy and magic, and the secrets of making elixirs, as well as the results of their application, were usually shrouded in secrecy. There is evidence that the Chinese philosopher Zhang Daoling (the founder of the famous Tao school) and Bishop Allen de Lisle, in their declining years, regained their youth and extended their lives for another 60 years. As soon as they drank unknown pills, the regeneration process began, after 40 days vigor and strength returned to the elders,then teeth and hair fell out and grew back.
The biblical patriarchs lived for hundreds of years. Arab scientist Biruni in 1000 called some Elias "everliving". The historical figure of the Count Saint-Germain is widely known. An old aristocrat who knew him personally met the "dead man" in Vienna 30 years after his official death, and she did not change at all in appearance. The last time he was allegedly seen in December 1939 in Venice.
For two thousand years, the Eternal Jew, Ahasfer, has been wandering around the world, who did not allow the tortured Jesus, who carried the cross to Calvary, to rest next to his house. According to legend, Jesus said: "You will wander in the world forever, and you will never have either peace or death." Indeed, from century to century, researchers have come across records of meetings with Ahaspher in many countries. For example, in 1242 - in France, in 1505 - in Bohemia. At the end of the 17th century in England, professors from Oxford and Cambridge allegedly gave Ahasuer a biased examination. His knowledge of ancient history, geography and languages was amazing.
What contributes to longevity?
Such "ever-living", no doubt, experienced and intelligent, and they do not need to hide their existence, changing names and countries of residence. But even Ahasfer is a "youngster" in comparison, for example, with the first ruler of Babylonia, Alor, who only ruled for 36 thousand years. Beroz, a priest of the temple of the god Bel in Babylon, wrote about him and others like him in his "History of Cosmogony".
But what about the facts confirming the existence of super-longevity, on whom time has no influence at all? Archaeologists have repeatedly found skeletons of people, whose age, according to assumptions, is hundreds of years.
The designer of rocket and space technology I. S. Filimonenko believes that the reason for the longevity of the ancients is that earlier on Earth there was 179 times less radioactive potassium. According to the scientist's calculations, the average life span of a person in antediluvian times was 12 and a half thousand years. If we look at the duration of the existence of plants from this point of view, we get this: potassium oxide in birch wood is 13.8%, the tree grows and develops for 250 years, in pine - 6.9%, its life is 600 years, in spruce - 3.2%, term - 1200 years.
After the flood, the kings and patriarchs “surrendered”, they began to live no more than a thousand years, then even less.
Other reasons for the shortening of a person's life are also called: this is inherent in his genes; there was no ambrosia - "food of the gods" and spiritual connection with these gods; bad ecology, stress and alcoholism. Gerontologists note that longevity is promoted by the effect of healing melt water, the predominance of good feelings and positive emotions in a person, moderation in food. Scientists pin great hopes on hormones. Experiments with body cooling are underway. Lowering its temperature by two degrees promises an extension of life to 200 years, by four degrees to 700 years.
Toad's secret
Scientists are trying to understand what time is. The first studies and striking experiments in time control in the 70s of the XX century were carried out by Professor N. A. Kozyrev. He developed the theory of time and argued that it has directionality and density, absorbed and radiated by material bodies, not being a material carrier. The Red Baron - Soviet Air Force brigade commander, physicist and aircraft designer Roberta di Bartini theoretically substantiated the three-dimensionality of time. One of its dimensions is speed, or, according to Kozyrev, density. The theory of time considers as a special case our everyday, as we believe, one-dimensional and equilibrium time, in which, nevertheless, there are many strange things. People disappear into "chronal traps" - sometimes for a short while, sometimes forever. Experimentally establishedthat in anomalous zones and "enchanted places" the course of time changes. There are observations that sometimes it even flows backwards.
Test pilots talk about time dilation in critical flight situations, workers experienced the same during industrial accidents, and some survivors of major accidents confirm this. Siberian shamans and yogis can slow down the time.
And here we have to remember those amphibians that we talked about at the beginning of the article. What is the secret of a toad that has spent years and years inside a cobblestone or lump of coal? It is unlikely that alchemists are right, and feeding through the skin with a solution seeping into the stone can prolong the life of someone for so long. There is an assumption that toads in their "cells of immortality" sharply slow down the internal time, thereby infinitely increasing the duration of their own life. What causes this phenomenon: the magnetized structures of the stone or it is generated by a living organism that has fallen into extreme conditions is still unknown. However, once a person understands the secret of the toad, he can stop eternity.
Valery Kukharenko. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" № 37