{"id":121909,"date":"2021-04-24T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physics-of-dna-in-each-of-us-lies-a-message-its-beginnings-lost-in-the-mists-of-time"},"modified":"2021-04-24T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T23:23:17","slug":"physics-of-dna-in-each-of-us-lies-a-message-its-beginnings-lost-in-the-mists-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/physics-of-dna-in-each-of-us-lies-a-message-its-beginnings-lost-in-the-mists-of-time","title":{"rendered":"Physics of DNA \u2013\u201cIn Each of Us Lies a Message, Its Beginnings Lost in the Mists of Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/favrMbfi1Pw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physics of DNA \u2014\u201cIn Each of Us Lies a Message, Its Beginnings Lost in the Mists of Time\u201d | The Daily Galaxy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAt one time,\u201d writes science-fiction author <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisetaylor.org\/\">Dennis E. Taylor<\/a> in <i>We Are Legion (We Are Bob)<\/i>, \u201cwe thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient to get going. But as we\u2019ve moved into the information age, we\u2019ve come to realize that life is more about information than energy. Fire has most of the characteristics of life. It eats, it grows, it reproduces. But fire retains no information. It doesn\u2019t learn; it doesn\u2019t adapt. The five millionth fire started by lightning will behave just like the first. But the five hundredth bacterial division will not be like the first one, especially if there is environmental pressure. That\u2019s DNA. And RNA. That\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Information has the Ability to Animate Matter<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.asu.edu\/content\/paul-davies\">Paul Davies<\/a>, Arizona State University astrophysicist and Director of the Beyond Center, and author of <i>The Demon in the Machine \u2013How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life<\/i> offers a similar message to Taylor: information, like energy, has the ability to animate matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics of DNA \u2014\u201cIn Each of Us Lies a Message, Its Beginnings Lost in the Mists of Time\u201d | The Daily Galaxy. \u201cAt one time,\u201d writes science-fiction author Dennis E. Taylor in We Are Legion (We Are Bob), \u201cwe thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}