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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE The Problem with Physics Physics is regarded as the measuring rod of reality, but there are a few problems. Astrophysics knows that dark matter exists, yet has no clue what it is. The same goes for dark energy. The inquiry is concentrated on black holes and dark envelopes around galaxies. It is assumed that the dark matter is out there because no one has detected any locally. The quantum physics problem is at the subatomic level. Everything adds up nicely, but nobody believes that the results apply to the real world. Particles appear out of noth- ing, then disappear. They exist in many places at once, while behaving like both waves and particles. These and other quan- tum mechanics results are not in doubt. In the 101 years since Max Planck came up with the idea, it has proven the most accu- rate scientific theory ever developed. The catch is, it only applies to the subatomic world. You can see the problem. Modern physics has given up on measuring reality. Gravity works, so there is a bunch of dark matter at the big scale. Quantum mechanics works, but only at the small scale. This leaves Newton's mechanics, modified by Einstein. This works without including modern results. Adding to the confusion is the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum weirdness. The conservative version goes like this. When a quantum measurement is made, the universe splits into two or more possible futures. The extra futures are con- sidered abstract mathematical constructs, with the real future being the one we are in. This is consistent with quantum mechanics if you stay at the subatomic level. The radi- cal view thinks all the parallel futures are lit- erally real. Adherents feel this brings quan- tum observations into the familiar world. The conservative camp figures the literal interpretation isn't worth the metaphysical baggage. Quantum paradox is a popular theme these days. A good bookstore has several shelves of books on the subject. Parallel worlds and black holes are favourite topics; and if you check carefully, a naked singular- ity is occasionally mentioned. Our naked singularity model appears to solve quantum paradox better than the others. It is at least in conceptual agreement with quantum and astrophysics observations, while applying one model to all scales. As the old saying goes, time will tell. That's about enough history and science 50% of the human genetic code. Don't think this makes the fruit fly half as complex as a erson. Each human gene can make three or our different protein patterns, plus varia- tions. A fruit fly gene is limited to one pro- tein configuration and few variations. The whole linear sequence—100,000 to 120,000 genes—is in every cell in your ody. Out of these, about 30,000 are human genes. They are scattered here and there in the sequence. Nobody has actually seen a gene. Genetic information first appears as DNA. The DNA tells RNA what proteins to uild. The RNA assembles protein patterns rom amino acids. Three types of RNA uild protein patterns from 20 different amino acids. Each protein folds into its own unique shape. They look like fantastic, two- dimensional origami art. The next big genetics project is mapping the possible protein shapes. This counter- part to the Genome Project will be called the Proteo. Success seems likely, since the chemical machinery of protein synthesis is so well understood. Check out an up-to-date science text for the details. Think of DNA as the architect, RNA as the workers, amino acids as lumber, and protein patterns as the framing superstruc- ture. Take note that the one-dimensional gene is missing from the chemical explana- tion. Genetic information first appears as DNA, but that is not where it is stored. It's the same binding problem as for memory. Binding requires time-locking to account for information storage and retrieval. Genetic information binds with the one- dimensional gene. It is supplied to the chemical process in a computer code. This code is written in three-letter words. The alphabet for DNA is A, C, G and T; each letter corresponds to the bases adenine, cyto- sine, guanine and thymine. RNA is the same, except U (uracil) replaces T (thymine). Like familiar binary computer code, there are no spaces between com- mands. For example, AUGCGG is an RNA code because it contains the letter U. This message is two command words, each the mandatory three letters long. This is the lan- guage between genes and their DNA-RNA replicating machinery. You can see where we are going with this. One-dimensional genes represent the naked singularity network for carbon-based life. Cell wall and nucleus membranes fulfill the asymmetric enclosure requirement. But we're getting ahead of the story again. Let's see why quantum physics needs adjacent negative space. background to help you get the idea. Let's see what we can say about the naked singularity model now. Our Naked Singularity Model Again René Descartes broke the world in two by separating mind from that which has extension. It turns out he was right. Our model suggests unextended informational mass at time-locked locations, with bound- ary behaviour as its messenger mechanism. Let's look at boundary behaviour on a flow diagram (see figure 9). Note that it depicts an idealised laminar flow and joundary layer motion. A natural fluid- form interaction is rarely this perfect. B - Boundary Motion V - Velocity Fluctuation C - Chord Height Laminar flow develops the most organ- ised boundary motion, but all flows on a sur- ace generate some boundary behaviour. When laminar flow occurs adjacent to a strongly asymmetric surface, the boundary motion moves at right angles to the parent low and always in the direction of greatest chord height on the surface. This boundary behaviour absorbs amplitude frequency from surrounding requency waves. In this manner, available informational waves bind in the boundary low as amplified velocity fluctuations. We call the sum of absorbed informational requency the eigenfrequency. Boundary motion carries the eigenfrequency to surface oint at greatest chord height, where it stops. At this point, the delivered eigenfrequency can phase-couple, since it is temporarily time locked and polarity matched with a naked singularity location. Information in the eigenfrequency is now informational mass at rest potential in negative space. This is the information messenger mechanism (see figure 10). The simplest 50 ¢ NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2002