&quot;If this interpretation of the data is correct, then aging is a natural process that can be reduced to nanoscale thermal physics&quot; - this was utter crap. No wonder this guy is at a liberal arts college. You can&#x27;t equate atomic force breakage to senescence. Without any scientific linkage it&#x27;s like linking the sinusoidal pattern of seasonal temperatures to the amplitude of an alternating current. Welp, must mean that the basis of temperature is electricity right?<p>&quot;But the sheer number of possibilities being put forward refutes the very possibility. They can’t all be the cause of aging.&quot; - Wrong, more likely it&#x27;s a mix of all of them. You can cruise PLoS One and realize that most researches in this area realize that it&#x27;s likely a combination of many underlying factors from other researchers&#x27; discoveries that contribute to aging.<p>One more thing, how does an open system become limited to the second law of thermo like a closed one?<p>Stay scientific Hoffman.