On Sat, 23 May 2009, Terry Blanton wrote: > http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/does-dna-have-t.html > > Does DNA Have Telepathic Properties?
Terry, there's also a "DNA Telepathy" announcement from two or three years back, where two portions of DNA crystal were found to have identical segments via fluorescent tagging ...even though they were on either side of a membrane, and separated by many nanometers. Someone here at the UW published a paper on it. Search on "dna telepathy" for old hits? Here's one http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124103151.htm Also, there's an enormous unsolved problem in biology which is similar to this 'telepathy' problem, yet nobody talks about it: In living cells, how to "keys" and "locks" almost instantly find each other over vast distances, and how can they do it in an environment where organized water behaves as a solid at the micro-level? This problem becomes very obvious in the famous Harvard animation of the workings of a cell, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ3DD_tV9k http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html Watch ribosomes come flying in from a distance, then somehow finding and docking to a pore on the nucleus membrane. What attracts them to the membrane? How to they find the pore itself? Wouldn't there have to be some kind of weird, "key-lock" attractive force that pulls that particular pore-type protein to that particular ribosome-type protein? And next, immediately the film shows another mystery, where the tip of a nucleus RNA comes flying up from below, docks with the pore/ribosome assembly, and starts "running the tape" to assemble a protein. Why was the tip of the RNA strand attracted to the nuclear membrane? How could it seek out the membrane pore? (Stupid hint, grin: imagine that the video takes place in total darkness, so the molecules can't see where to go!) In other parts of the film, the animators didn't solve the mystery by illustrating unknown forces which nobody talks about. Instead they did it by cheating. When a fiber of actin or tubulin assembles itself, the animators simply created a film of these fibers dissolving, with all the broken parts diffusing away. THEN THEY RAN THE FILM BACKWARDS! It's a total violation of 3rd law entropy, with time running backwards. Molecules come flying in from vast distances and link onto the growing fiber tip. What force drives this amazing phenomenon? More importantly, what forces select the proper type of molecule subunit, and only attracts that type of molecule towards the growing end of the fiber? What mechanism can make it seem that time can run backwards, to assemble subcellular fibers? Nobody knows. Long ago it was explained by diffusion. But then calculations showed that diffusion took too much time. Then years later the discovery of solid "organized intracellular water" made the problem even more inexplicable. I suspect that the real problem is psychological: Since we KNOW that cellular biology has nearly all problems solved, and no huge revolutions in biological science happen anymore, therefore it's impossible that any "vast unknown" could still exist. (If it did, it would make our contemporary science look ignorant and primitive, like something from last century! ) So, there's really nothing left to explore, at least nothing big. We're only cleaning up the details, such as the protein-folding mystery. And so, if an entire community of smart and highly trained people looks directly at an enormous unsolved problem ...they won't see it. They're selectively blind. And it's not even the complicated problems that they miss. It's the obvious ones that even little kids would point out. "Daddy, why does the continent of Africa fit onto south America like two pieces of a puzzle? Mommy, why does that animation of molecules look like time is running backwards?" If mommy is a cell biologist, then... "shut up kid, you aren't smart enough to understand." But the little kid is right. > DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, > even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be > able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet. What's realy amazing: your news item causes a stir, when most of the simplest cellular processes require that the molecules somehow must be attracted together over a distance, as if keys and locks with matching "codes: can sense each other. > Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs > about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” > ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a > distance. When ribosomes are assembling proteins, and the little tRNA's are bringing in the subunits to join the growing strand ...how does the ribosome pull in those particular building-blocks from vast distances? Whatever this mystery-force may be, it's enormously strong, since proteins are assembled at kilohertz rate. [sarcasm]Or maybe it's magical reverse diffusion, where the arrow of time is going backwards. A completed protein, in the future, is "living bckwards," and as it dissolves, it appears to us that it's assembling itself. Problem solved.[/sarcasm] > Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny > bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. In actin fiber growth, somehow the subunits are able to identify the fiber tip, and seek it out over quite enormous distance. In tubulin growth, somehow the tubulin molecules are able to identify the fiber tip, and seek it out. In protein assembly, somehow the tRNA "ferryboats" are able to identify the active ribosome, and bring the needed subunits to the fast-growing protein tip. In communication across the nuclear membrane, somehow RNA tips are able to identify nucleus membrane pores, and travel across vast distances to dock with, then pass through the pore. (SHort list. Many more examples exist, just watch that video while keeping your eyes peeled.) > The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for > scientists. Everyone go watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ3DD_tV9k http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
