2006-09-07 05:33:40 · 2 answers · asked by the man 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
NO, that is a lie. Aging process in biology involves among other things, decaying. In chemistry aging means sometimes loss of chemical action of a compound due to decay of matter itself.
In physics, atoms and its particles DO decay it is called HALF LIFE and its more commonly named on radioactive elements, but all elements have half lives, so they do age.
2006-09-07 17:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by pogonoforo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by 'age' - the effects of time are not unnoticed, as time is a vector; however, this entirely depends upon the environment because time is purely relative. Note that even in biology, time is relative; although it may seem absolute (ie, an organism has an 'age'), it is really only relative to the birth of the organism.
Many subatomic particles are short-lived, that is they 'disappear' by combining with other particles or undergoing a transformation (ie, how a proton becomes a neutron by exchange of a gluon), so you could say they 'age' in this regards.
2006-09-07 05:41:59 · answer #2 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋