We have always underestimated cells.”
Bruce Alberts, “The Cell as a Collection of Protein Machines: Preparing the Next Generation of Molecular Biologists,” Cell, 92 (February 6, 1998): 291-294
A few assorted notes on ‘information concentration’, thermodynamics, and ‘simple’ life:
First, a ‘subtle’ clue that information may be more foundational to life than Materialists presuppose is found here:
Information Storage in DNA by Wyss Institute – video
https://vimeo.com/47615970
Quote from preceding video:
“The theoretical (information) density of DNA is you could store the total world information, which is 1.8 zetabytes, at least in 2011, in about 4 grams of DNA.”
Sriram Kosuri PhD. – Wyss Institute
Storing information in DNA – Test-tube data – Jan 26th 2013
Excerpt: Dr Goldman’s new scheme is significant in several ways. He and his team have managed to set a record (739.3 kilobytes) for the amount of unique information encoded. But it has been designed to do far more than that. It should, think the researchers, be easily capable of swallowing the roughly 3 zettabytes (a zettabyte is one billion trillion or 10²¹ bytes) of digital data thought presently to exist in the world and still have room for plenty more.
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21570671-archives-could-last-thousands-years-when-stored-dna-instead-magnetic
Philip Cunningham
It's a shame how biology texts ... including college level ones .... grossly over-simplify biochemistry. |
