On Sat, 30 May 2009, leaking pen wrote: > Im now imagining a rick moranis ribosome wandering around the cell, > are you the gatekeeper? I am the keymaster.
Give Moranis a radio direction finder, and it all becomes easy! Actually, my previous message was a lead-in to one of my old rants, http://amasci.com/tesla/biores.html Years ago I suffered a 'visionary experience,' and gained insights into all sorts of weird topics, plus much delusional crap which doesn't work when tested. Among it all was a tidbit: the idea that anomalous biological forces exist, forces which act like radio transmitters and receivers, with key-codes to allow biomolecules to be attracted together over many nanometers distance. At the time I was mostly unaware of the unsolved problem in biology, but I'd had suspicions. Heres the quick description: - Even though electrons orbiting atoms don't radiate photons, they do create an extremely intense AC field in the nearfield region surrounding the atom. It's related to AC Casmir forces. Physicists would see this as QM, as a field of virtual photons at the frequency of the atom's absorption line, an AC field of indeterminate phase, oriented along an indeterminate axis. Electrical engineers would imagine that every atom is a tiny AC electromagnet driven by a sinewave source. The atom's local field is AC, so there's no average force being applied to nearby matter. And atoms don't radiate continuously (i.e. there's no loss mechanism.) So, if an electron's period is in the infrared frequencies, the atom will have an AC field which extends outward to 1/4 infrared wavelength (or hundreds of nanometers.) So atoms are different than we believe. They're much larger. But only identical atoms could "feel" this large size. Example: sodium atoms possess an intense AC field at the sodium line frequency, and if two sodium atoms are ultra-cold and not moving fast with Doppler shift, the oscillations are identical for both atoms, synchronized. They act like bar magnets attracting each other. But these are AC electromagnets. They only see other sodiums, and won't respond to other atoms having a different frequency. But what if two sodium atoms happen to be out of phase? Even if they have identical frequency, might they not repel instead of attracting? Well, that's the same problem as two magnets having their poles out of orientation. Like two magnets they'd experience repulsion, a torque, then they'd flip themselves around, attract, and slam together. (Atoms could only slam together if ultra-cold and not being jostled thermally.) - Molecules: Two atoms with identical frequencies, if bound together into a molecule, will create a "line split" frequency, a double-hump spectrum instead of a single spectral line. Large biomolecules have a complicated band of frequencies. But the band has the same basic nature as the double-hump line spectrum of a simple 2-atom molecule. Imagine a radio system based on double-hump receivers, not single line spectra. Two tuning knobs, and 2D tuning indicator. So biomolecules are like our resonant sodium atoms above: their line spectrum creates an AC field which happens to be in synch with any identical biomolecule. The identical molecules pull upon each other over relatively large distances (distances shorter than half a wavelength.) - Complicated molecules have a complicated spectrum, giving a key/lock effect where two molecules can attract, but where attraction is easily turned off by making some small change to spoil the synchronized AC fields. So perhaps molecules could use this to *communicate*. A "transmitter" and "receiver" section of two distant proteins would be linked like two DC charged capacitor plates. But if one of the pair was changed slightly, the force between them would vanish: it would turn from DC to AC. You've got a pair of CW walkie-talkies, plus a morse code key which detunes one of them to break the connection. This comm link could evolve into a nervous system, a sub-cellular one. It's a nervous system which runs the organization inside single cells. But each link in it's many chanins would only be effective over a few tens of nanometers. This would put a maximum limit on the size of a single-cell organism. Like Apatosaurus which isn't aware that a preditor is biting the tip of its tail. To grow a larger animal, multiple cells would have to group together. Years after seeing these ideas, I read that Terrence McKenna's brother, a biologist, found out about the same concepts. http://www.heffter.org/pages/djm.html He got it from LSD/DMT visions, and called it something like "intelligent superconductive biomolecules which talk with each other." Well, yeah, I guess they'd be called "superconductive radios," since the AC field around an atom persists forever, with no friction at the micro level. But the central idea is "molecule radios," and labeling them 'superconductive' is just a distraction. Yuh doesn't need tuh eats any o dat LSD stuf though. Just eat pure foods, then start sleeping about 1hr per day as multiple brief catnaps. For weeks. If eating normal American food, you'll go into sleep deprivation psychosis. But if sticking to paleolithic diet, you'll access the place where Thomas Edison, Pablo Picasso, and Nikola Tesla obtained all their cool toys. And encounter things like this: amasci.com/tesla/tesray1.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
