I knew this article reminded me of something. Thanks Bill.
btw, cant resist. "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?" Im now imagining a rick moranis ribosome wandering around the cell, are you the gatekeeper? I am the keymaster. On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:36 PM, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote: > 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 > >
