I'm specifically interested in how well we can do this with humans, but even doing this in single celled organisms would be cool. Are we able to get a rough map? Are we still a few years away from that? or a few generations away?
Also if we can't do it, what stands in the way? Is it a lack of data? Is it difficulty mapping dna to proteins, or mapping proteins to their functions? Is it something else entirely?
I was raised as a Buddhist (now atheist), but what does theravadi buddhist scripture say about the advantages Buddhists have over non believers. I remember a sermon where a monk explained it when I was little, but I didn't pay any attention. You gain merit and karma whether you're a buddhist or not. Buddhists are told to not expect anything when doing good deeds because doing them while expecting something in return (hoping it'll have a good karmic effect in the future, or another reincarnation for ex) will cheapen that deed. It's hard for a Buddhist to not think about the karmic implication when doing good deeds, so wouldn't a non believer's meritorious actions be more pure in this sense?
Time travelling forward is easy, just do nothing and time goes forward. Want to travel into the future more rapidly? Park near a large mass or accelerate to massive speed and fast forward the surrounding time to your hearts content. Travelling backwards in time however is another matter. To travel somewhere, it has to exist. You cannot travel to a location that doesn't exist. The future exists as potential and thus can be travelled to. The past does not exist in the same way. Whereas the present will naturally progress to the future, and using relativity you can from your reference point get there faster, the past does not really exist in the same way. The only way that the past exists is by taking every piece of matter and energy in existence and somehow reversing the flow of all of it. Basically, to "travel" to the past, what you effectively have to do is turn back time, by extrapolating out every previous event using every piece of information existing in the present. cont.