09 September 2015 0 3K Report

I have been wondering for a while about the use of systems biology paradigms to explain future space trips; e.g. star track turns real.

Basically, it was said that we cannot understand an organism just by its genetic code, as classically was accepted, it is all about interactions between the environment and the organism, you cannot explain protein folding just using its primary structure.

In the other hand, the theory of relativity, general and special, states that gravity is the product of mass and speed, the special says that a body in constant speed can change time, and the general that gravity can change time.

In the classical experiment of the twins, Einstein must come back home before his twin brother dies, however I have never seen discussions about how those experiments would affect our organism, such as creating new diseases diminishing our life span; I am not talking about diving deep, high pressure, or stay in space, low pressure, I am talking effects on the timing of enzymes, folding of proteins and so on. all of this can affect our ability to survive and can be affected by time and gravity.

I have tried to write a paper about it three years ago, but I have not succeeded to find a plausible discussion. I do not expect people to answer the question, just to expose their standpoint, thus, do not hesitate to jump in the discussion. 

Keys: Systems biology; theory of relativity; philosophy; space trips; other planets' life.

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