Blessing
of Coronavirus SHUTDOWN or LOCKDOWN
The
natural evolution of shutdown was to find solutions for few of my
questions in evolution of life on earth, especially the pre-biotic
era that made it conducive for life to evolve in very slow steps.
1.Why
chirality or spin or left handedness in molecules?
2.
Why sex differentiation instead of simple binary division?
3.
Could there be half life half chemical scenario?
4.
How the interaction went on and succeeded eventually?
The
initial problem was that I limited myself to three forms of matter.
It should have been four or more.
1. Gas
2.
Liquid
3.
Solids
The
answer came from my son’s inquiry into why there are lines going
across the Television screen horizontally and why not vertically?
4. I delved into the liquid crystal world that easily bend light in many directions in a material as thin as 100 nanometers.
5. My friend the Coronavirus come to help me.
It
has 10 to 20 and 100 to 120 particle sizes in the form of RNA.
6. I told my son the Coronavirus can enter the Television screen as he watches it and the Coronavirus size is just the size of the Liquid Crystal Screen and bit less.
In theoretical sense the light can energizes the chirality of the semi-liquid particles in million ways.
So seven of our visible light stream is minor matter for the man who makes the cheap television screens for third world consumption.
Few of the pixels breakdown would bring a big aberration in the picture we see.
A thick television screen like Cathode Ray Tube can withstand the pixel aberrations much better but it costs more to build it and it consumes more electricity.
In reference, I told him first television was black and white and turning it to colour was an enormous achievement in my time.
Even though, I do not watch TV now I had an assortment of black and colour TV sets I purchased with hard earned money.
By the way when, I was in New Zealand I rented the TV and decided never to invest on a TV but computers (even before Windows) run on Unix.
My entry into Linux was logical consequence and I was quite adept at it then even coding.
I wanted to write the code for few Linux games (only handicap Linux had) and I have the book but misplaced the coding CDs (Why type every line but copy from the CD).
Back to the liquid crystal scenario, the the primordial soup was steaming with particles that made liquid crystals at random.
RNA came first in my story of the evolution albeit it did not make liquid crystals readily.
Then
came DNA and time was right for the RNA to dictate terms with DNA.
The pre-biotic soup had the right ingredient, in the form of Liquid Crystals.
The next step the biotic with binary division was inevitable.
The binary division and chirality worked hand in glove.The liquid crystal state was also conducive for formation of cell membrane.
To me formation of cell membrane with polarity was enigmatic, to say the least.
It has bilayers, one which is water phobic (repelling) and the other hydrophillic (water loving).
Liquid crystals could have been of many layers to begin with, its one sided spin arrangement allowed the formation of tiny globules (hydrophobic inside and outer hydrophilic surface bathing in liquid or water) that coalesce to form bigger globules of the size of pre-biotic cell formation.
Addition of RNA and much later DNA gave the ability of binary reproduction.
That does not mean in another world system with another system the chirality is in opposite direction is impossible but probable.
Like matter takes precedent here by making one atom in excess of antimatter that annihilated the antimatter, it is physically possible for one antimatter in excess matter to make a world system of antimatter realm.
In other words given time anything can happen in the physical world and not the way the Bible had predicted.
Chaos
and uncertainty principle are hard at work!
Reproduction
Last
Puzzle is the Life Puzzle
I
am intrigued by how life evolved on our planet.
I
won't exclude the fact that life would have traveled from outer space
in a tiny meteorite (mostly improbable).
Leave
that argument aside for the time being.
How
to approach the problem?
Top
down approach?
Bottom
up approach?
Either
way I am going to get bogged down somewhere around one (1) billion
years into the past.
The
premises are many.
1.
Origin of cellular life is incredible.
Almost
impossible in a hostile environment.
2.
It happened very very slowly.
3.
In its progress toward self perpetuation, there were many
obstructions including bombardment of meteorites.
4.
It went through five mass extinctions.
Currently
it is well into its sixth extinction.
5.
There could have been half life half chemical scenario.
How
the interaction went on we do not know.
6.
Cellular life is so labile it does not leave tell tale stories or
leave behind markers in stromatolites.
7.
Earth is a living planet and it does not have its oldest rocks
available for study.
Its
oldest rock is only two and a half billion years old.
Earth
life of four and a half billion is estimated from meteorites.
There
is two billion years of missing history which we have to surmise.
8.
In addition there were catastrophes.
9.
I am comfortable with the last 500 million years of its evolution of
that the last 3 to 5 million is matter of fact biology being
unraveled.
10.
How could I dissect the first 500 hundred of the last billion years.
11.
In addition there are many other questions.
WHEN?
WHERE?
HOW?
Life
originated?
12.
What was the smallest living particle?
We
seem to assume that we know a lot.
On
the contrary we know very little.
We
are stuck with the hereditary and survival of the fittest scenario
that would suit only the last 5 million years, assuming mitochonridal
mutations is rare.
In
fact, major mitochondrial mutations are very very rare.
It
is our energy store.
If
it goes haywire life cannot exist in the current oxygen rich planet
with cellular life.
This
preamble is for further dissection by my friends far and near.
There
are number of salient points that were not available to Darwin that
cannot be ignored.
They
did not come by chance.
My
premise is that evolution brought order to the world (universe)
without it.
There
was economy in participation.
Assimilation
of two
carbon units, twenty
amino acids coded by a
few
purines and pyrimidines, about 20,000 variants
of structural proteins with only levo-rotation
(no dextro-rotatoion of sugar molecules) are convincing evidence that
it started at one point in modern evolution continued albeit slowly.
But
nitty gritty of evolution and diversion of species were determined
not by nucleus but by mitochondrial evolution.
Mitochondria
were very resistant to mutation and they occur once in every 3 to 5
million year intervals.
When
that happened drastic changes happened to the primates (erect
posture, language acquisition and larger brain) in evolution.
How
it happened in an ovum is a mystery by all accounts and we do not have
mitochondrial data to evaluate.
For
example we have giant mitochondria in salivary glands and in yeasts.
Yeast
mitochondria can hijack nuclear DNA and that is one way of
mitochondrial evolution.
Mitochondria
evolved
by endosymbiosis.
Mitochondria
originated by a endosymbiotic event when a bacterium was captured by
a eukaryotic cell.
The organelles have far fewer genes than an
independent bacterium, and have lost many of the gene functions that
are necessary for independent life (such as metabolic pathways).
