Current observations with a decaying cosmological constant allow for chaotic cyclic cosmology
Abstract excerpt: ‘We present only a proof of principle, with no definite claim on the physical mechanism required for the present dark energy to decay.”
My comment: Unlike nearly all theorists, they do not claim to be certain about any of the physical mechanisms that link atoms to ecosystems in the context of supercoiled DNA in the organized genomes of all living genera on this planet.
For comparison, many theoretical physicists and evolutionary theorists place everything known or unknown about the biophysically constrained nutrient-dependent RNA-mediated physical mechanisms of amino acid substitutions and cell type differentiation into the context of mutations and evolution. Some of those theoretical physicists and evolutionary theorists are also among the people who attack the beliefs of creationists who have linked virus-driven genomic entropy to all pathology on this planet.
The first author of this “Current observations…” review, is also the co-author of:
Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics (2014), which was reported as A Crisis at the Edge of Physics (2015) and co-author of Top-down causation: an integrating theme within and across the sciences?
Excerpt:
The papers by Jaeger (microbiology) and Noble (physiology) are strong steps forward in this regard. This is perhaps the area where most needs to be done, across the board in all domains. Areas where striking progress is being made in this regard are epigenetics [22] and social neuroscience [23].
There may be no one more qualified to teach others about the difference between evolutionary theory and biologically-based facts than George F.R. Ellis. He is author a co-author, with Stephen Hawking, of
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
He is an active Quaker and in 2004 he won the Templeton Prize.[2] for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities
For comparison, in 2004, Linda Buck and Richard Axel shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and/or Medicine, and Linda Buck subsequently co-authored Feedback loops link odor and pheromone signaling with reproduction.
The feedback loops clealy link The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time from atoms to ecosystems via the biophysically constrained chemistry of nutrient-dependent RNA-mediated protein folding. RNA-directed DNA methylation and RNA-mediated gene duplication link RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions from the epigenetic landscape to the physical landscape of supercoiled DNA. The RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions in histones protect the organized genomes of all living genera from virus-driven genomic entropy.
The conserved molecular mechanisms that prevent virus-driven genomic entropy were placed into the context of Schrodinger’s “What is Life?” Schrodinger (1944) refuted the entirety of neo-Darwinian theoretical nonsense with his claims about the anti-entropic energy of sunlight. Population geneticists ignored his claims. They have also continued to ignore Darwin’s “conditions of life” and continued to ignore what is known about the virucidal effects of UV light. Serious scientists know that UV light may be the link from chaotic cyclic cosmology to the nutrient-dependent “conditions of life” that prevent genomic entropy. For example, thermodynamic cycles of protein biosynthesis and degradation appear to ensure the successful reproduction of species that ecologically adapt. No species has ever been shown to mutate and evolve into another species.
Ellis et al., (2015) conclude:
Many interesting questions remain regarding the physical viability of such a cyclic model given the usual problems associated with cyclic models, including the growth of entropy and the growth of perturbations through each cycle. The detailed physics of an inverse reheating process are also to be explored in detail, given that the physics of reheating itself may not be time symmetric. A further consideration would be how to construct an explicit decaying cosmological constant model that would t with all available observations to date. We leave these interesting and open questions to future work.
My comment: Clearly, the challenge that they issue to all theorists requires that the theorists either link the anti-entropic energy of UV light from atoms to ecosystems or offer another model that attempts to do so. Claims that “natural selection” is a neo-Darwinian anti-entropic force are, quite frankly, the claims of biologically uninformed science idiots.
See: Periodic Scarred States in Open Quantum Dots as Evidence of Quantum Darwinism
See for comparison: Nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled ecological adaptations: from atoms to ecosystems
Abstract:
This atoms to ecosystems model of ecological adaptations links nutrient-dependent epigenetic effects on base pairs and amino acid substitutions to pheromone-controlled changes in the microRNA / messenger RNA balance and chromosomal rearrangements. The nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled changes are required for the thermodynamic regulation of intracellular signaling, which enables biophysically constrained nutrient-dependent protein folding; experience-dependent receptor-mediated behaviors, and organism-level thermoregulation in ever-changing ecological niches and social niches. Nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled ecological, social, neurogenic and socio-cognitive niche construction are manifested in increasing organismal complexity in species from microbes to man. Species diversity is a biologically-based nutrient-dependent morphological fact and species-specific pheromones control the physiology of reproduction. The reciprocal relationships of species-typical nutrient-dependent morphological and behavioral diversity are enabled by pheromone-controlled reproduction. Ecological variations and biophysically constrained natural selection of nutrients cause the behaviors that enable ecological adaptations. Species diversity is ecologically validated proof-of-concept. Ideas from population genetics, which exclude ecological factors, are integrated with an experimental evidence-based approach that establishes what is currently known. This is known: Olfactory/pheromonal input links food odors and social odors from the epigenetic landscape to the physical landscape of DNA in the organized genomes of species from microbes to man during their development.
For comparison, see: Was ribosome the first self-replicator?
Excerpt:
“…does it make sense to talk about dark variants of cell and cell membrane? Can one tell whether it was pro-cell or bio-molecules that emerged first? It seems that all these structures could have emerged simultaneously. What emerged was dark matter and its emergence involved the emergence of all the others. Hens and eggs emerged simultaneously.”