{"title":"The quantum cell","authors":"John S. Torday","doi":"10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a consensus that we are conscious of something greater than ourselves, as if we are derived from some other primordial set of principles. Classical or Newtonian physics is based on the Laws of Nature. Conversely, in a recent series of articles, it has been hypothesized that the cell was formed from lipid molecules submerged in the primordial ocean that covered the earth 100 million years after it formed. Since lipids are amphiphiles, with both a positively- and negatively-charged pole, the negatively-charged pole is miscible in water. Under the influence of earth's gravity, the lipid molecules stand up perpendicularly to the surface of the water, packing together until the negative charge neutralizes the Van der Waals force for surface tension, causing the lipid molecules to ‘leap’ into the micellar form as a sphere with a semi-permeable membrane. Particles in the water freely enter and exit such spheres based on mass action. Over time such protocells evolved Symbiogenesis, encountering factors that posed existential threats, assimilating them to form physiology to maintain homeostatic control. Importantly, when differentiated lung or bone cells are exposed to zero gravity, they lose their phenotypic identity in their evolved state, which has been interpreted as transiting from local to non-local consciousness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54554,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology","volume":"188 ","pages":"Pages 24-30"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610724000191","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is a consensus that we are conscious of something greater than ourselves, as if we are derived from some other primordial set of principles. Classical or Newtonian physics is based on the Laws of Nature. Conversely, in a recent series of articles, it has been hypothesized that the cell was formed from lipid molecules submerged in the primordial ocean that covered the earth 100 million years after it formed. Since lipids are amphiphiles, with both a positively- and negatively-charged pole, the negatively-charged pole is miscible in water. Under the influence of earth's gravity, the lipid molecules stand up perpendicularly to the surface of the water, packing together until the negative charge neutralizes the Van der Waals force for surface tension, causing the lipid molecules to ‘leap’ into the micellar form as a sphere with a semi-permeable membrane. Particles in the water freely enter and exit such spheres based on mass action. Over time such protocells evolved Symbiogenesis, encountering factors that posed existential threats, assimilating them to form physiology to maintain homeostatic control. Importantly, when differentiated lung or bone cells are exposed to zero gravity, they lose their phenotypic identity in their evolved state, which has been interpreted as transiting from local to non-local consciousness.
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Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology is an international review journal and covers the ground between the physical and biological sciences since its launch in 1950. It indicates to the physicist the great variety of unsolved problems awaiting attention in biology and medicine. The biologist and biochemist will find that this journal presents new and stimulating ideas and novel approaches to studying and influencing structural and functional properties of the living organism. This journal will be of particular interest to biophysicists, biologists, biochemists, cell physiologists, systems biologists, and molecular biologists.