DAWN – Particle/waves of energy creep across a planet-sized horizon, exciting a swath of cells into transforming glee. A biosphere as big as a continental plate reacts. Each deci-atom strip spiraled round itself evaluates what’s been done and what’s left undone, marshalling the energy towards processes that require the fuel.
Gaia burns, sweats, toils in unions mor microscopic than XXXXXX skin pores. Can you almost picture it? DNA molecules, millions of miles in length, bundled atop each other, their activity increasing cell-by-cell in every organism on the planet. Life awakening, a continental-plate long stadium wave twelve to eighteen hours wide.
DNA is only 10 atoms wide, yet the length of DNA in the human body can reach the moon and back 80,000 times, given the best estimate, within a few million miles. In the individual cell we find that DNA is not a blueprint. Rather , it is a data processor. It is this data which, when marshaled into order, counters the “inevitability of entropy” in the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
If you could see life’s seizure with the power of a microscope, you would see that trees no longer have leaves but solar panels.
The human eye is more sophisticated than any camera of a similar size. The cells on the outer layer of the retina can absorb a single photon and amplify its energy at least 1 million times before transferring it through a nervous signal to the back of the brain. The iris, which functions as the diaphragm, is automatically controlled. The camera has just the right curvature. The lens is focused by miniature muscles, which are also controlled automatically by feedback. The final result of this visual system, still imperfectly understood in its entirety, is a clear, colored, 3-Dimesional image inside the brain that we perceive as external. We never see reality, but an internal representation of it that our brain constructs continuously.
What I find especially striking through this is that another human being can look at my page, upside down, comment on the beauty of my handwriting, and read back what I’ve written verbatim. Perhaps an educated individual, this person can conceptualize the statement back to me, thereby demonstrating true understanding of mutually shared symbols wholly dependant on their 3-D virtual representation while recreated on a medium “In Reality,” “out there,” beyond my actual sight.
In Genesis, God breaths “the breath of life” into geology, a man formed from dust. DNA is a data processor / feedback system devoted to growing the complexity of the chromosome and thereby its environment, the cell. DNA all of 10 atoms wide and hundreds of millions of miles long, wrapped limitless around itself within every cell of the biosphere and acting as its capricious feedback loop, comes as close to a resemblance of “the breath of God” as our science has means of discovering!
I do not mean to deadline the awesome power of God into that which we humans can now perceive, small and labeled insignificant due to its size. Rather, I wish a reader to comprehend the immeasurably of information processed at a cellular level. You cannot wrap your mind around the DNA molecule or as-to-yet-unresearched “swarm tendencies’ at the cellular level of the biosphere, an envelope for the geosphere.
