The number five resonates in other places. Ever explored the Myst game series? Five pops up a lot.
Number resonance seems to be important. Threes in bears, pigs, and mice, for example. In the opening pages of "The Origin of Life" by Paul Davies, things get downright strange when he says, "Meanwhile some circumstantial evidence that the cell might resemble aspects of a quantum computer come from the work of Apoorva Patel at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Patel points out the at the numbers, 3, 4 and 20 which characterize the genetic code, drop up automatically in a well-known quantum computational problem - searching a database o unsorted objects for a target. this is a hint, albeit a small one, that DNA might employ quantum superpositions to improve its functional efficiency.
I am not familiar with Myst but thank you for this comment John. I actually had another line in my newsletter asking people to let me know if there is some explainable reason people could be drawn to certain numbers but I took it out.
This comment from Paul Davies is super interesting. "The Origin of Life" just got added to my 'books to read list'. Thanks for the comment!
I have an extra copy of The Origin of Life. Just send along your snail mail 🐌, and I will toss it in the post. Not a light read exactly, but did you know that a long time ago a chunk of Mars fell to earth and (possibly) killed a dog in Egypt? To learn about this and other weird and wonderful things, you should really read this book.
The number five resonates in other places. Ever explored the Myst game series? Five pops up a lot.
Number resonance seems to be important. Threes in bears, pigs, and mice, for example. In the opening pages of "The Origin of Life" by Paul Davies, things get downright strange when he says, "Meanwhile some circumstantial evidence that the cell might resemble aspects of a quantum computer come from the work of Apoorva Patel at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Patel points out the at the numbers, 3, 4 and 20 which characterize the genetic code, drop up automatically in a well-known quantum computational problem - searching a database o unsorted objects for a target. this is a hint, albeit a small one, that DNA might employ quantum superpositions to improve its functional efficiency.
I am not familiar with Myst but thank you for this comment John. I actually had another line in my newsletter asking people to let me know if there is some explainable reason people could be drawn to certain numbers but I took it out.
This comment from Paul Davies is super interesting. "The Origin of Life" just got added to my 'books to read list'. Thanks for the comment!
I have an extra copy of The Origin of Life. Just send along your snail mail 🐌, and I will toss it in the post. Not a light read exactly, but did you know that a long time ago a chunk of Mars fell to earth and (possibly) killed a dog in Egypt? To learn about this and other weird and wonderful things, you should really read this book.
Thanks! Just trying to cover all the bases 😁