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Fungus that live on gamma radiation
And this...
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DNA as a quantum computer.
John
amazing
Apr 02, 2011
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Muzaffer Kal
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Well, kinda; it just means that the electronic interaction is spin sensitive, i.e. the expected spin-orbit coupling term that spectroscopists have known for a century in atoms, makes a measurable effect also in molecules of the DNA type.
Neurons don't reproduce - do you suppose their DNA/RNA machinery might be adapted to computing and/or memory?
Thanks, Rich
They don't reproduce, but new ones are made from stem cells.
John
Wow, a 14 atom quantum computer...
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How many atoms are there in a strand of DNA?
John
Heaps, lots. Redundancy too. And boo-boos. Wonder we work at all, no?
Grant.
spectroscopists
That bit of folk wisdom is also wrong. Nervous tissue cells do = reproduce. The rate is much lower than for skin cells.
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