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FROM HELIX TO HOLOGRAM An Ode on the Human Genome FROM HOLOGRAM HELIX Ode the Genome Human on Life is fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical, the DNA blueprint functioning as a biohologram which serves as a guiding matrix for organising physical form. (from the Heart Sutra) FROM BIOCHEMISTRY TO BIOPHYSICS at is DNA? Where did it come from? How does it function to create life, to create us? We have some of the biochemical answers, but we can look deeper into bio- physics for our models. We propose that DNA functions in a way that correlates with holographic projection. DNA projects a blueprint for the organism that is translated from the electrodynamic to the molecular level. Furthermore, research strongly suggests DNA func- tions as a biocomputer. This DNA-wave biocomputer reads and writes genetic code and forms holo- graphic pre-images of biostructures. We are more fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemi- cal beings. BIOCOSMOLOGY Where do we come from? Imagine the possibility that life may have come from the fertile womb of the Universe to Earth as a tiny hitchhiking alien, using a meteor as a spacecraft. Anaxagorus, an ancient Greek, first proposed the theory that the seeds of life are spread throughout the Universe. A science for discovering the foundations of life needs a theory—a biological Big Bang. One current theory has emerged from astrobiology, the science that searches for life in the Universe. It is a candidate to replace the old concept that life arose on Earth in a "primordial soup". Panspermia alleges that life exists and is distributed uniformly through the Universe in the form of amino acids, microbes, germs and spores. If life arose extraterrestrially, then our planet is not a closed system. The fossil evidence shows that life took root on Earth as soon as possible once the heavy bombardment period subsided, the planet cooled and water formed. Vulcanism and space debris made conditions inhospitable to life for the first half-a-billion years of planetary existence. This "seed of life" can travel between worlds and arrive by natural means such as ballistic impact, meteorite and comet. Intergalactic space may be permeated with cosmic dust and microbes. Evidence shows they could survive the hard-core radiation and the near-absolute cold of deep space. Some researchers (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, 2000) believe these "seeds" of life are raining down on us all the time, affirming our cosmic ancestry. Four billion years ago there was no DNA on planet Earth. It is widely believed that our DNA/protein-based cells are derived from an earlier world based on RNA, which can both replicate information and be a catalyst for chemical or metabolic processes. In the prebiotic era, self- assembling RNA was both the genetic and catalytic basis. The simple genome resided in the RNA— a single circular chromosome. We still don't know how RNA arose in the first place (Poole, 1998). Perhaps it arose from some simpler, self-replicating molecule. The evolutionary path from the RNA world led to the most primitive organisms: prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) and eukaryotes (single-celled organisms). Neither variety of primitive organism is a complete cell, but even prokaryotes have some free-floating DNA and ribosomes to make protein. Ribosomes "read" the genetic information and make whatever the cell needs. They possibly existed longer than 3.55 billion years ago, as their fossils and carbon deposits may indicate. Even exponents of competing theories on the origin of life agree ribosomes are at least 2.7 billion years old (Copley, 2003). For 500 million years there were only RNA-based organisms. Primitive life could exist in hostile surroundings with extreme heat and acidity or with no oxygen or even light. Latest findings show that this life-form descends deep within the crust of our planet, and perhaps other planets. It seems life is not so fragile after all, but hearty and robust. The womb of our Universe is fertile—not hostile to life. by lona Miller and Richard Alan Miller © 2003 OAK Publishing, Inc. Oregon, USA Websites: http://www.nwbotanicals.org http://www.geocities.com/iona_m by lona Miller and Richard Alan Miller © 2003 OAK Publishing, Inc. Oregon, USA Websites: http://www.nwbotanicals.org http://www.geocities.com/iona_m NEXUS ¢ 49 Form is not other than Void; Void is not other than Form. AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com