DNA & Time Reversal

Abstract

This article is devoted to the view about DNA inspired by zero energy ontology (ZEO) forming the basis of the quantum measurement theory of Topological Geometrodynamics (TGD) and by the notion of dark DNA inspired by the TGD view about dark matter as phases of the ordinary matter with effective Planck constant h_eff =nh₀ > h at magnetic body (MB) - the third key notion distinguishing TGD from standard model. The basic prediction of ZEO is that "big" (ordinary) state function reduction (BSFR) changes the arrow of time meaning "death" and "reincarnation" with opposite arrow of time. This leads to a new view about self-organization. The time reversals of the basic processes like transcription and replication turn out to be possible only for the conjugate (passive) strand - this is basically due to the CPT theorem in TGD context and chiral selection. By chiral selection enzymes can catalyze processes but not their time reversals. For instance, conjugate strand polymerizes in reverse time direction - this looks like depolymerization in standard time direction. Polymerization of the conjugate strand however occurs in standard time direction but in reverse direction along strand. The recombination of DNA strands during meiosis is poorly understood. This could correspond to reconnections for the flux tubes associated with the active DNA strands. Time reversal would occur in BSFR and formerly passive conjugate DNA strands would depolymerize to "loose" codons (not independent letters) by the time reversed polymerization, the flux tubes associated with the formerly active strands would suffer reconnections inducing recombination without assistance of enzymes, second BSFR would occur, and be followed by the replication of recombined active strands. According to the findings of Becker, the direction of the electric field along the body axis determines whether the system is awake or sleeps. By the properties of electric field under time reflection, the arrow of time correlates also with the direction of the electric field. TGD predicts that consciousness is possible even at the level of DNA. Could also DNA have a longitudinal electric field with direction correlating with the arrow of time of DNA at the (magnetic body) MB of DNA. Could there be a switch changing the direction of this electric field? This inspires a model for the DNA as ferroelectret based on the properties of the negatively charged sticky ends of chromosome and dark DNA codons as proton triplets along a magnetic flux tube parallel to DNA strand. A simple proposal for the time switch based on the analog of Becker's DC currents emerges: proton flow of the dark protons of sticky end to the opposite sticky end would change the arrow of time. The model could generalize also to proteins known to be ferro-electrets and could be accompanied also by their dark analogs.