Origin of Life: Newton, Darwin, and the Abundance of Life in the Universe

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Two giants of British science, Newton and Darwin, developed theories of negentropic force in physics and biology. The two scientists are adjacently interred in Westminster Abby, and their theories of gravity and evolution likewise share common ground and a fractal resonance with DNA. Because DNA/RNA is both a replicating molecule and part of the universal 4×3 fractal pattern, the implications for the abundance of life in the Cosmos are enormous.

Origin of Life: Newton, Darwin, and the Abundance of Life in the Universe
(revised Oct., 2008)

John A. Gowan and August T. Jaccaci
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    Introduction

    Newton and Darwin are buried a few feet apart in Westminster Abby, but this is not the only distinction they have in common. Both developed major theories of negentropic forces which create information domains. Newton developed the theory of gravitation which produces time and the historical arena for evolution, and indeed creates the entire fractal hierarchy of Nature either directly or indirectly; Darwin developed the theory of Evolution through Natural Selection, producing in time the entire biotic realm (see: “The Table of Natural Organization”). The two theories intersect in DNA, which, like gravity, has a 4×3 fractal structure, dynamic, and negentropic role, but is also a replicating, biological molecule. Although gravity’s connection is indirect, there can be no DNA without gravitation to produce the galaxies, stars, and planets where the molecule and its constituent elements are created and assembled. Even more fundamentally, without gravitation there is no temporal and historic dimension in which evolution can operate (see: “Introduction to Gravitation”). Gravity is the overarching negentropic energy source producing information as the crown of matter, in which DNA, life, and evolution are embedded like jewels.

    Darwin’s theory is biotic, and depends upon the 4×3 molecular structure and coding pattern of DNA, of which he was completely ignorant. Nevertheless, Darwin correctly developed the gross features of the theory of evolution and discovered its mechanism in Natural Selection. Natural Selection can also be modeled as a 4×3 mechanism: 1) heritability of 2) differential fitness with respect to 3) the utilization of a limiting resource (Leowntin 1970) within a 4 level population structure: a) the variable individual; b) the reproductive pair; c) the locally adapted population; d) the reproductively isolated species. Newton developed the idea of gravitation by discovering its mechanism or force law (F = GMm/rr), which was later shown by Einstein to also have a 4×3 basis (four third-order equations – the changing rate of acceleration in x, y, z, t). Neither Newton nor Einstein elaborated upon the information building potential of gravitation, but this is displayed in “The Information Ladder“.

    Although gravitation is an abiotic force, it is nevertheless responsible, directly or indirectly, for every level of the fractal hierarchy, creating the stars and galaxies, creating the elements in stars, and creating the planets which support life. Therefore Newton’s Gravitation stands to the Fractal Hierarchy of Nature as Darwin’s Natural Selection stands to the Theory of Evolution – gravity is the negentropic engine which produces all the material realms of the fractal hierarchy, while Natural Selection is the negentropic engine of biotic evolution. The fact that both these negentropic drives intersect in the 4×3 fractal, replicating molecule of DNA has enormous implications for the abundance of life in the Universe, amounting to a theory of and a prediction for exobiology.

    The 4×3 Fractal Algorithm Creates a Replicating Molecule

    In addition to the physical manifestations of free and bound electromagnetic energy (light, dimensions, particles, charges, forces, etc.), the closed cosmic system is governed by four physical laws: the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics (energy conservation and entropy), “Noether’s Theorem” (symmetry conservation), and Causality-Information (the law of cause and effect, or “karma”). During the “Big Bang” or “Creation Event”, these 4 natural regulatory laws interact with the 4 dimensions of the spacetime metric to produce matter and the 4 charges and forces of physics, as illustrated in the “Tetrahedron Model“. This still-mysterious symmetry-breaking process represents the primordial example and dynamicof the 4×3 fractal algorithm in Nature, producing in turn the first material iteration of the fractal: the 3 families of 4 elementary particles, followed by the ground-state baryons of 3 quarks and 4 charges, etc. (see: “Nature’s Fractal Pathway“).

    After producing the baryon at the particle level (via weak force symmetry-breaking during the Big Bang), the 4×3 fractal mechanism (operating both in the Big Bang and in the stellar nucleosynthetic pathway) produces alpha particles (helium nuclei) and carbon at the atomic level (carbon carries an astounding 5-fold resonance of the 4×3 algorithm). Shifting to the lower energies of the planetary arena and the atomic electron shell, the fractal drive next produces tetrahedral bonds and crystals at the molecular level (notably in both carbon and water), and finally the 4×3 molecular structure of RNA-DNA. DNA is the molecular intersection of the abiotic fractal resonance and the biological replicating series, due to the simple fact that DNA, while on the structural level a fractal 4×3 resonance, is on the biological level a replicating molecule producing a 4×3 genetic code. Once DNA begins reproducing, molecular competition within a finite environment between similar consumers with similar needs for limited resources creates a new negentropic drive in the domain of Information – Natural Selection – which, like gravity, can also be modeled as a 4×3 dynamic (see above). Acting in concert with matter’s eternal search for antimatter (via the electromagnetic force), gravity and natural selection are complementary abiotic and biotic negentropic drives which have carried biological information systems to fantastic levels of complexity. Augmented further by the abstracting, symbolizing intelligence and technology of humans, there is no known limit to the sophistication information systems may eventually achieve.

    Finally, the fact that RNA-DNA is a 4×3 fractal resonance has enormous implications for the abundance of life in the Universe, for it means that the creation of the replicating molecule DNA is not a random event, but a likely and predictable product of the abiotic fractal algorithm operating in any suitable environment. Because water also has a tetrahedral bonding pattern, the linkage between carbon and DNA via the 4×3 fractal series is especially enhanced in the presence of the “universal solvent”. This evidently is why life arose on water-covered Earth so quickly after the initial period of our planet’s accretion and bombardment.

    See also: “A Simpler Origin for Life” by Robert Shapiro. Scientific American, June, 2007, pages 46-53 (and on http://www.sciam.com).
    See also: “The Origin of Life” by James Trefil et. al.     American Scientist May-June 2009 Vol. 97 No. 3 pages 206-213.

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  1. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part 2
  2. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part I
  3. The Conversion of Space to Time by Gravity
  4. The “Tetrahedron Model” vs the “Standard Model” of Physics: A Comparison
  5. Postscript to: Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the Cosmic Tetrahedron Model
  6. Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the “Tetrahedron Model”
  7. A General Systems Approach to the Unified Field Theory – Part 4 (General Systems Discussion)
  8. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 3 of 3
  9. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory (a “Theory of Everything”) – Part 2
  10. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2 of 3
  11. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2
  12. The Particle Table
  13. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory (Part 1 of 3)
  14. An Introduction to the Papers (Unified Field Theory)
  15. Proton Decay and the “Heat Death” of the Cosmos
  16. Proton Decay and the “Heat Death” of the Cosmos
  17. The Origin of Matter and Information
  18. Introduction to the Higgs Boson Papers
  19. Higgs Table: Unified Force Eras of the “Big Bang”
  20. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs: Parts II -IV
  21. The Higgs Boson vs the Spacetime Metric
  22. The Weak Force: Identity or Number Charge
  23. Introduction to The Weak Force
  24. A Description of Gravitation
  25. Introduction to Gravitation
  26. Introduction to The Weak Force
  27. The Weak Force: Identity or Number Charge
  28. A Spacetime map of the Universe: Implications for Cosmology
  29. Negentropic Information
  30. Synopsis of the ‘Tetrahedron Model’
  31. Time and Entropy
  32. Noether`s Theorem and Einstein’s “Interval”
  33. The Intrinsic Motions of Matter
  34. Light and Matter – a Synopsis
  35. A Short Course in the Unified Field Theory
  36. The Information Pathway
  37. Sect. VI: Introduction to Information
  38. Introduction to Fractals
  39. Introduction to General Systems, Complex Systems
  40. A Rationale for Gravitation
  41. About Gravity
  42. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part 2
  43. A Description of Gravitation
  44. Spatial vs Temporal Entropy
  45. Introduction to Entropy
  46. The Human Connection
  47. Global-Local Gauge Symmetries and the “Tetrahedron Model” Part I: Postscript
  48. Global and Local Gauge Symmetry in the “Tetrahedron Model”: Part I
  49. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part IV
  50. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part V
  51. Global-Local Gauge Symmetry: Part III: The Weak Force
  52. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part II (Gravitation, Section A)
  53. Global and Local Gauge Symmetry: Part II (Gravitation, Section B)
  54. The Origin of Matter and Information
  55. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part I
  56. The Conversion of Space to Time
  57. The Short-Range or “Particle” Forces
  58. The Time Train
  59. Extending Einstein’s Equivalence Principle: Symmetry Conservation
  60. Introduction to Gravitation
  61. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part I
  62. The Higgs Boson vs the Spacetime Metric
  63. de Broglie Matter Waves and the Evolution of Consciousness
  64. Nature’s Fractal Pathway
  65. Teilhard de Chardin – Prophet of the Information Age
  66. The Double Conservation Role of Gravity
  67. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs: Parts II -IV
  68. Higgs Table: Unified Force Eras of the “Big Bang”
  69. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs
  70. Introduction to the Higgs Boson Papers
  71. The Strong Force: Two Expressions
  72. Table of Forces and Energy States
  73. The Origin of Space and Time
  74. “Inflation” and the “Big Crunch”
  75. The “W” Intermediate Vector Boson and the Weak Force Mechanism
  76. The Weak Force Mechanism and the “W” IVB (Intermediate Vector Boson):
  77. Physical Elements of the “Spacetime Map”
  78. The Traveling Twins Paradox
  79. Currents of Entropy and Symmetry
  80. The Half-Life of Proton Decay
  81. Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the “Tetrahedron Model”
  82. An Introduction to the Papers (Unified Field Theory)
  83. The “Spacetime Map” as a Model of Juan Maldacena’s 5-Dimensional Holographic Universe
  84. The “Tetrahedron Model” in the Context of a Complete Conservation Cycle
  85. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 3 (Summary)
  86. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2
  87. General Systems “Hourglass” or “Grail” Diagrams
  88. PARTICLE TABLE
  89. The “Tetrahedron Model” vs the “Standard Model” of Physics: A Comparison
  90. “Dark Energy”: Does Light Create a Gravitational Field?
  91. Human Life-Span Development and General Systems Models
  92. Man’s Role in Nature
  93. Origin of Life: Newton, Darwin, and the Abundance of Life in the Universe

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