08 JAN 2013 by ideonexus

 Infinite Creativity was Stored in Hydrogen Atoms

Once the matter created by the Big Bang cooled sufficiently, the universe consisted of a vast cloud of hydrogen atom consisting of a single proton surrounded by a single electron—along with a smattering of slightly heavier elements, including helium (with two protons) and lithium (with three). The universe at that time was about the most boring place imaginable. It consisted of nothing but disembodied atoms drifting through space and the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Yet the potentia...
Folksonomies: wonder simplicity big bang
Folksonomies: wonder simplicity big bang
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From this simple unit, everything in the Universe came about.

14 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 Early Description of What Would Become DNA

Knowing what we know from X-ray and related studies of the fibrous proteins, how they are built from long polypeptide chains with linear patterns drawn to a grand scale, how these chains can contract and take up different configurations by intramolecular folding, how the chain- groups are penetrated by, and their sidechains react with, smaller co-operating molecules, and finally how they can combine so readily with nucleic acid molecules and still maintain the fibrous configuration, it is but...
Folksonomies: dna molecular biology
Folksonomies: dna molecular biology
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"they form the long scroll on which is written the pattern of life."