QT #23: WHY IS LIFE HELICAL?

DNA only codes for proteins.  When you think about this for a moment, it is quite odd.  Life just does not use proteins to get the job of living done.  Why don't we code for other things?  Is there a deep reason for this that we missed in basic biology?  

Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity and most people believe we are born with it but I do not believe this. I believe we can teach people how to think more broadly by learning to examine things we do not believe or accept to see if they have merit or not. Divergent thinking can be acquired and developed skill when you get "skin in the game". I now excuse people who sense life with tiny thinking. This brand of expansive thinking is a distinct form of higher-order thinking and it can be taught to all ages of autodidacts. "Divergents" always give themselves permission to see things differently than crowds. Misunderstanding vanish when you train yourself to ask, 'What else might this imply'?

Glycine helps us break symmetry in nature by being the ONLY symmetric amino acid.  That idea sounds counterintuitive until you understand what nature is up too.  She hitches all of her chromophores that absorb some parts of the visible spectrum and connects them to proteins that act as tuning forks because the light waves the chromophore absorbs turns into an electromechanical wave of vibration in the protein portion of the photoreceptor.  All amino acid residues, other than glycine, has no symmetry elements.  So when they are strung together via the peptide bond they can never line up perfectly.  They must have some type of staggered alignment.  This topology makes them ideal to turn light waves into vibrational tuning forks using resonance.  Melanopsin is loaded with helical proteins and its chromophore appears to be the Vitamin A that is bound to it.  Vitamin A absorbs light and makes these helices vibrate in the eye so we know when night falls.   

The general entanglement of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent is done to satisfy a light waves requirement of a staggering molecule because light's electric and magnetic components are orthogonal to one another.  Since amino acids are inherently asymmetric to one another, an order begins to appear from chaos.  Accordingly, this nanoscopic atomic arrangement dictates a rotational axis must exist in proteins.  This makes them obtain interesting solid state properties.  The protein axis builds a screw-like pitch angle by translation along the molecules axis.  Since light is only absorbed by the electrons in the chromophore the energy and information in light can be transmuted to other forms of energy without any loss as long as this energy is not thermalized back to the environment.  This is what makes photonic energy transfer appear to operate in the classic world like magic to us.  It is magic, but it is quantum biologic magic at work based upon the arrangement of atoms in precision with the 90-degree angle of a lightwave to make an oscillation possible.  

When you realize what Mother nature is really up to with DNA, you begin to realize she codes for proteins that only operate with vibrational modes within the visible spectrum of light.  She abhors things that make her proteins vibrate out of tune.  Hence the only configurations for a protein chain compatible with what we call life are that the residues must form helical configurations.  This is why all proteins that vibrate are helical.  It also explains why DNA assumes this shape too. 

It appears Mother Nature selected amino acids that can build corkscrew proteins that work with the corksrew light waves in terrestrial sunlight.  This appears to be an exclusive relationship and explains why light outside or isolated from the solar spectrum cause signaling problems and interference in the system's fidelity.  Light is captured by electrons and we do a lot of things with its energy and information quanta before we let it fall back to the ground state.  That is life's major magic trick.  

Watch the video now. The gap between learning and knowledge is called procrastination. Procrastination delays our success. This video shows you the way I traveled 15 years ago. the picture below shows you how light screws into the protein threads of photoreceptors.  You need to get on the same page with me.