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Lifespan crisis and immortality paths
Humanity answers the lifespan slide with colonisation and biotechnology together. Funding and technical monopoly belong to the Zhu Foundation.
| Path | Mechanism | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Colonisation | Axiox Industries performs environmental engineering and infrastructure, and recovers capital by auctioning planetary land title. | Forward execution. Capital and core technology remain under the Foundation. |
| Partial Yamanaka reprogramming | A short OSKM pulse rewinds the epigenetic clock and strengthens DNA repair without erasing cell identity. | The laboratory can rewind decades of epigenetic age in vitro. Once damage outruns the repair window, an insufficient dose rebounds and an excess produces teratoma and identity collapse. This is the public face of official immortality work. |
| Immortal DNA symbiont | A flavour-singlet glueball anchors every base and supplies the missing scaffold of the Yamanaka cascade. Once mature, partial reprogramming can repeat without cancer or dedifferentiation. | Planetary phase lock requires a living epigenetic entropy bath: humans in the millions as biomass and calibration catalyst. The site that satisfies both window and geometry is Kepler-186F. |
The final symbiont step is a boundary condition of the field equation. Genomes in the millions must release a sufficient diversity of methylation and histone maps under synchronous stress and death before a laboratory steady state can be calibrated into a civilisational one.