BBB, your thoughts are very much in line with pseudo-science.

equating our understanding of vibrations as we experience them in life with how quarks behave in string theory is wrong. also, your bicentennial monks dont exist. hippie and religious resources may say they do, or it may be that information has gotten embellished along the way, but theyre wrong.

i know this is hard to believe that miraculous things we hear about from our ancient secrets are hogwash, but the fact of the matter is that the scientific community does not leave rocks unturned. if it was in fact truth that meditation slows the aging process down then we would be able to find it plastered all over pubmed and then into popular magazines and news. but we dont. i dont quite understand how its so easy to believe in things that are clearly not determined to be true. if a hundred and fifty year old dude was alive do you think he wouldnt be on the front page? doesnt matter if he lived beneath the ice of the north pole, reporters and journalists make a living off of finding newsworthy shit and so many would be scrambling for this one.

the most our science has unraveled is that meditation may have a positive effect on aging. proper controls for these studies are extremely hard to do, and are likely impossible for a long time. the best we can make are correlations, but thats nothing.