During a primordial ice age, ice crystallized in pools of liquid nitrogen on its poles, forming diamond-like crystals creating order from chaos. Models made from matchsticks and Plastacine™ or criss-crossed strips of cardboard stapled together are surprisingly strong (Figures 1 and 2). Random temperature fluctuations drove a ferroelectric phase transition at 72 degrees Kelvin, accommodating water molecules' irregular tetrahedral shape and releasing latent energy as infrared laser light, ice light with wavelength λ ~ 4 μ. When such light was tried for de-icing aircraft wings, it was reflected. Likewise, it would have been reflected by surface ice and ice in clouds, just as Marconi's first transAtlantic radio signals were. Lightning created nucleotides in the warm tropical waters Charles Darwin described, they absorbed ice light which photophosphorylated them. Reflection polarized the light, so only left or right-handed, chiral nucleotides were chosen (remember the thalidomide disaster!) and a noodle soup of chiral DNA emerged (Figure 3).
The phase transition at 72K in ice XIc accommodating water molecules’ irregular tetrahedral shape I discovered in 1967 restores the confidence in science measuring c challenged. Forming in polar pools of N2 during a primordial ice-age, fluctuating temperatures released latent energy as λ ~4µ laser light. Multiple reflection polarized it and deoxynucleotides on tropical water surfaces were polymerized, creating chiral DNA, uniquely explaining life’s origin.
‘Transport DNAs’ sharing tRNA’s H-bond-lined pores concentrated life’s ingredients in coacervates. Replicate tDNAs originated life. DNA’s stability makes it life’s likely precursor. ‘Differentiation DNAs’ selecting tDNAs control cell diet and tissue specialization. Nine pathways deploying trace elements as carriers control metabolism. Mutant tDNAs and dietary deficits account for morbidity.
‘Minion’ DNA/oligopeptide complexes optimize chromosomes replication. They function as biological clocks, chips-in-the-brain and nuclear fusion reactors. Minion logic reinterprets 20th century scientific axioms. Resonant cavities coupling chemical to mechanical energy efficiently.
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