Dust comes "alive?"

The Judge · 08-12-2007, 05:40 PM

According to this Sunday Times article, under the right conditions inorganic, galatic dust can self-organise into helical and double helical structures resembling the structure of DNA.

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"The new research, to be published this week in the New Journal of Physics, found nonorganic dust, when held in the form of plasma in zero gravity, formed the helical structures found in DNA. The particles are held together by electromagnetic forces that the scientists say could contain a code comparable to the genetic information held in organic matter. It appeared that this code could be transferred to the next generation."

Cool stuff indeed. Would be VERY interested to hear from any physicists / biologists on this one.

Check out this title:
"From plasma crystals and helical structures towards inorganic living matter"
From these guys:
V N Tsytovich, Gregor Morfill, Vladimir E Fortov, N Gusein-Zade, B A Klumov and S Vladimirov
When this journal publishes it hopefully later this month.

Let's just hope the Jeetards don't claim this as a victory for the literal truth of Genesis:

Jeetard: "See?!... Man was made from dust like it say in da buybull!"

Normal person: "So that would make "god's breath" a form of plasma then?... :rolleyes:

Choobus · 08-12-2007, 06:01 PM

bah! It's just the story of the golem updated. Al that skience is in the fucking bible, and if you don't believe that burn in hell evil doer.

ubs · 08-12-2007, 06:04 PM

This is great stuff.

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Professor Greg Morfill, of the Max Planck institute of extra-terrestrial physics, said: “Going by our current narrow definitions of what life is, it qualifies.

Thank you Judge.

Sternwallow · 08-13-2007, 07:43 AM

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ubs wrote

This is great stuff.

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Professor Greg Morfill, of the Max Planck institute of extra-terrestrial physics, said: “Going by our current narrow definitions of what life is, it qualifies.

Thank you Judge.

Is there also a plasma-driven transcriber in space as well to enable replication of these helices?

calpurnpiso · 08-13-2007, 09:54 AM

Quote:

The Judge wrote

According to this Sunday Times article, under the right conditions inorganic, galatic dust can self-organise into helical and double helical structures resembling the structure of DNA.

Quote:

Article wrote

"The new research, to be published this week in the New Journal of Physics, found nonorganic dust, when held in the form of plasma in zero gravity, formed the helical structures found in DNA. The particles are held together by electromagnetic forces that the scientists say could contain a code comparable to the genetic information held in organic matter. It appeared that this code could be transferred to the next generation."

Cool stuff indeed. Would be VERY interested to hear from any physicists / biologists on this one.

Check out this title:
"From plasma crystals and helical structures towards inorganic living matter"
From these guys:
V N Tsytovich, Gregor Morfill, Vladimir E Fortov, N Gusein-Zade, B A Klumov and S Vladimirov
When this journal publishes it hopefully later this month.

Let's just hope the Jeetards don't claim this as a victory for the literal truth of Genesis:

Jeetard: "See?!... Man was made from dust like it say in da buybull!"

Normal person: "So that would make "god's breath" a form of plasma then?... :rolleyes:

Awesome, thanks for posting it.:thumbsup: