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New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)

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Re: New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)

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espeed wrote: post #7

A few weeks ago when I was searching for signs of cycloids hiding in nature, I came across scanned images of this obscure 1997 paper by Harvey A Jetmore Jr: "An Hypothesis of Antinomy [0]" Parts [1] and [2]. One idea that jumped out at me is Jetmore's hypothesized possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix, which he summarizes in Part 1: 8 and 9... 8. I can not ignore the possible relationship of t…

Am I understanding correctly that this is claiming to have placed our world within our known map of math? Honestly I believe something about like that to be the case, anyone actually determining it exactly and proving it however I expect to take awhile longer, this ain't it chief.

Re: New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)

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gjm11 wrote: post #8
espeed wrote: post #7

A few weeks ago when I was searching for signs of cycloids hiding in nature, I came across scanned images of this obscure 1997 paper by Harvey A Jetmore Jr: "An Hypothesis of Antinomy [0]" Parts [1] and [2]. One idea that jumped out at me is Jetmore's hypothesized possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix, which he summarizes in Part 1: 8 and 9... 8. I can not ignore the possible relationship of t…

This looks to me like crankishness close to the Time Cube level. Is there some reason why you think it's worthy of attention, or relevant to this? (Beyond the fact that it mentions helices, I mean.)

Cycloidal paths show up throughout the quantum world (hints of which I've posted about before [1]). This is the first time I've seen anyone pose a possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix. And in any case, sometimes there are gems buried in unknown papers. As Eric Weinstein states it, many things are "Pre-Correct, Currently Crazy" [2] -- the trick is to find them.

[1] Some interesting properties of cycloids and places they show up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18586144

[2] MIT AI Podcast: Eric Weinstein - Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19458503

Re: New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)

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Post by mekoka »

Causality1 wrote: post #5

>All life on Earth is made of molecules that twist in the same direction That is...not true, or at least a little misleading. Each class of molecule in earth life twists the same way as other members of that class but not all classes twist the same. For example, nucleotides twist right/D, while amino acids twist left/L.

From the article:

Scientists later discovered that this bias encompasses the entire living world. Synthetic chemical processes will generate both left- and right-handed molecules. But when nature makes a molecule, the product is either left- or right-handed. For example, all amino acids that are used to make proteins twist light to the left.

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