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To: koan who wrote (17202)7/31/2006 12:39:28 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 78420
 
And:

A chemistry of small numbers, a quantum chemistry, is needed to account for life's emergence.

To see how quantum mechanics might have been involved in life's origin, imagine the primoridal soup-(paraphrased ot save time-lol).

The self replicating peptide can be written in one letter amino acid code a rmkqleekvyellskvacleyevarlkkvge-lol.

how was the first self-replicator assembled?
There are 20 to 23 or 10 to 41 possible ways to put peptides together which are 32 amino acids long.

If primoridal chemistry managed to syntheisize just one molecule of each possible peptide then the total mass must have weighed about 10 to 18 kilograms. Far more than the total mass of todays tropical rainforests. There is no warm pond to big enough to make so many peptides.

My note,: but in the quantum world this is not a problem!
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