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Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?

by marvy 10y ago

abledon 10y ago
Its more about the strength and quality rather than the quantity. As we get older the quality reduces with the rate depending on our genes, lifestyle, habits etc... Children in general, have better qi because they are 'new'. I'm not going to go into the scientific details here and start listing off pubmed studies, but its all in that book if your interested (many references at the end of each chapter). I'm sorry the amazon link seemed to further dishearten you, I would love to know why!
- marvy 10y ago
  > I would love to know why Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook: "[...] how the hearts of two people in love (or in scientific terms `quantum entanglement') truly beat as one" Just no. I don't know quantum mechanics, but I know enough to say that can't possibly be anywhere near right, or even vaguely plausible.
  - abledon 10y ago
    Ah yes, so, similar to how womens' periods synchronize up when they live together...Studies of couples show that when in a state of rapport, of emotional empathy, heart rates become matched and that they become mismatched when out of rapport: http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-couples/ http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-coup... Yeah I would probably not take that quote 'Truly beat as one' literally, I mean, I'm betting the heart rates in the study aren't as precise as to say... a distributed real-time system written in go /joke :)
    - marvy 10y ago
      It's not the "beat as one" I object to, it's the "quantum entanglement".
      - abledon 10y ago
        Oh, Rats! Well when speaking about quantum entanglement, we (as Naive realists on HN (see my profile)) should just ignore it for the next 2000 years, hopefully by then physicists will have a definitive yes or no answer for that domain. Like an unfortunate cardamon seed in our tasty sweet rice kheer, I guess just navigate around it and enjoy everything else presented in the book with a back-up-with-references-from-pub-meds-from-the-last-40-years format.
        marvy 10y ago
        All right, all right :) I'm adding it to my list.

Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?

by marvy 10y ago

Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?

Its more about the strength and quality rather than the quantity. As we get older the quality reduces with the rate depending on our genes, lifestyle, habits etc... Children in general, have better qi because they are 'new'. I'm not going to go into the scientific details here and start listing off pubmed studies, but its all in that book if your interested (many references at the end of each chapter). I'm sorry the amazon link seemed to further dishearten you, I would love to know why!

marvy 10y ago
> I would love to know why Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook: "[...] how the hearts of two people in love (or in scientific terms `quantum entanglement') truly beat as one" Just no. I don't know quantum mechanics, but I know enough to say that can't possibly be anywhere near right, or even vaguely plausible.
- abledon 10y ago
  Ah yes, so, similar to how womens' periods synchronize up when they live together...Studies of couples show that when in a state of rapport, of emotional empathy, heart rates become matched and that they become mismatched when out of rapport: http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-couples/ http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-coup... Yeah I would probably not take that quote 'Truly beat as one' literally, I mean, I'm betting the heart rates in the study aren't as precise as to say... a distributed real-time system written in go /joke :)
  - marvy 10y ago
    It's not the "beat as one" I object to, it's the "quantum entanglement".
    - abledon 10y ago
      Oh, Rats! Well when speaking about quantum entanglement, we (as Naive realists on HN (see my profile)) should just ignore it for the next 2000 years, hopefully by then physicists will have a definitive yes or no answer for that domain. Like an unfortunate cardamon seed in our tasty sweet rice kheer, I guess just navigate around it and enjoy everything else presented in the book with a back-up-with-references-from-pub-meds-from-the-last-40-years format.
      - marvy 10y ago
        All right, all right :) I'm adding it to my list.