Darwin

Chuck Grimes cgrimes at tsoft.com
Tue Aug 10 13:14:46 PDT 1999


Got any references Chuck? For others interested in this stuff, "The Self-Made Tapestry" by Philip Ball is a great place to flex your dendrites (too bad the photos are only in b/w)

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Not really. Gravity studies in biology have a bad reputation. The main reason is that the field depends heavily on physiological phenomenology, which is already suspect in advance. In other words, you can observe various physiological features and processes for years and gain no insight on what is going on at the molecular level. This is why genetic mutations are considered important. The mutation that appears at a physiological level can then be tied directly to a molecular-genetic process.

In any event, the most suggestive references are the studies on protein and macromolecular topology--how proteins and large molecules are formed and folded in space, and how these configurations are dependent on the electro-mechanical properties of the constituent parts. These do not bare directly on gravity, but rather suggest that space symmetry is an effect of directed forces, or the consequence of the general properties of fields.

All I have at the moment is an old biophysics text, _Biophysics_, Hoppe W, Lohman W, Markl H, Ziegler H, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983. In this monster, there are a variety of articles that bare on the subject, but the one I used to check for virus coat assembly was, "Structural Organization of Proteins", Schulz, GE (384-94pp). This was no doubt a short synopsis of his book, _Principles of Protein Structure_, Berlin: Springer, 1979. So, all the specific material is very old.

Chuck Grimes



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