Thread: Does DNA Have Telepathic Properties?

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Another fascinating article, courtesy of StumbleUpon.

Thoughts?
Theories?
Arguments?

Maybe, i mean this really did happen to me, no joke. I was walking to go downstairs, i passed a big jar of spagetti noodles at the far end of the counter on the wall, i go downstairs, then later come back up and it was laying on the floor. What the fuck gives? there was no earthquake, no rumbling from a big truck, nothing...it just somehow fell on it's own. It made me question if it was me....or of course some ghost that dropped it, as it would not surprise me...i have heard some really strange things in my house over the years.

To understand what researchers conjecture is really happening, think of double helixes of DNA as corkscrews. The bases that make up a strand of DNA each cause the corkscrew to bend one way or the other. Double-stranded DNA with identical sequences each result in corkscrews "whose ridges and grooves match up," said researcher Sergey Leikin, a physical biochemist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md.

The electrically charged chains of sugars and phosphates of double helixes of DNA cause the molecules to repel each other. However, identical DNA double helixes have matching curves, meaning they repel each other the least, Leikin explained.

It's nothing special really. There are much more impressive effects in molecular biology... phospholipid bilayers are a nice example.

Originally Posted by Xei

It's nothing special really.

So please explain the unremarkable properties (of what is happening that makes such communication at a distance possible) for me, in layman's terms, if you don't mind.

(Throwing in an explanation of what "phospholipid bilayers" are would be nice, too.)

Things are complicated

So please explain the unremarkable properties (of what is happening that makes such communication at a distance possible) for me, in layman's terms, if you don't mind.

(Throwing in an explanation of what "phospholipid bilayers" are would be nice, too.)

The explanation was in my quote.

Phospholipid bilayers are what the boundaries of cells are made of. They're cool because they form spontaneously.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

DNA is a chemical. A complex one. Of course it's going to react with other molecules simliar to it in different ways, which may give the false impression of actual 'intelligence' or foresight behind it. Kind of like watching ants build an anthill. Each individual ant is doing something different, but the end result may almost imply total coordination where there is none.

The sum of many smaller processes.

I knowed it came from stumbleupon.com the moment I saw this thread.