Where Did The Particles That Started The Big Bang Come From?

Oh how I remember those paper tapes... some were chadless and others had the chad still attached.

We preferred the chad tape ourselves - fewer errors than with the chadless (sometimes the chad didn't get punched out enough not to press its little pin down). And you could have your very own ticker-tape parade with the contents of the chad boxes ;)
 
How do you know if a code represents the top row or bottom row. ie how could you tell the difference between 'B' and '?' ?

That was the big problem... one had to look at the printed page and see if it made sense. If it didn't, then one had to try to decode it to the other shift.
 
Base 3 coding?

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How do you know if a code represents the top row or bottom row. ie how could you tell the difference between 'B' and '?' ?

See the tiny row of horizontal holes? That's where the gear meshed into the tape. There are two rows of intelligence above that and three below.

(Edited to add) And if you weren't sure after that, you could just run the tape through the tape reader. If you got crap on the printer, you flipped the tape 180 degrees and it (usually) cleared up.
 
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That there is coding for proteins. Which would be done by mRNA. The DNA is base 2 i think.

The DNA code is very interesting and can tell us tons about the program being ran on this planet:

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I'm sure there are people who are already working on this angle. I just don't know who.
 
I see A,G,C,T.
I assume those are chemical representations.
If that is all the base chemical codes. That would be 4 bit base?
But i see 7 chemical symbols in each of the above figure.
 
DNA piano?

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Well, I was not referring to the DNA so much as to the nature of everything we view as parts of the universe.

Let's take color for instance. We have cones in our eyes... the points of the cones would resonate with the higher frequencies in the visible light spectrum and the base of the cones would resonate with the lower.... red frequencies.

Sound works pretty much the same way... we have a coiled tapered tube in our ears and the lower frequencies would be resonant with the large end of the tube and the higher frequencies would be resonant with the small end of the tube.

We could go on with other examples as well... like for instance radio waves and the length of the receiving antenna.
 
Well, I was not referring to the DNA so much as to the nature of everything we view as parts of the universe.

Let's take color for instance. We have cones in our eyes... the points of the cones would resonate with the higher frequencies in the visible light spectrum and the base of the cones would resonate with the lower.... red frequencies.

Sound works pretty much the same way... we have a coiled tapered tube in our ears and the lower frequencies would be resonant with the large end of the tube and the higher frequencies would be resonant with the small end of the tube.

We could go on with other examples as well... like for instance radio waves and the length of the receiving antenna.

The complexity of these basic organs scream designed to me.
Not on a individual basis, but on a universal basis. A law, or algorithm, by which things are governed. Like in computer code.
 
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The compexity of these basic organs scream designed to me.
Not on a individual basis, but on a universal basis. A law, or algorithm, by which things are governed. Like in computer code.

Well, how long would it take to accidentally write a computer program that filled volumes and have it work correctly?

I agree with you on the complexity issue.
 
Well, how long would it take to accidentally write a computer program that filled volumes and have it work correctly?

I agree with you on the complexity issue.

Technically, it could be random. But it would take a very long time to accidently get every piece of the code in a complex organism right.
 
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The computer scans vertically through each lane of the gel file, and converts the pattern of bands to an individual chromatogram with a series of "peaks" corresponding to each of the bands in the DNA sequence: A C G & T. DNA migration slows over the course of the electrophoresis, and multiple bases towards the end may appear as a single broad band instead of discrete "peaks". In this experiment, automatic base calling is 100% accurate to position 684, and >98% accurate to the end of the DNA template at 787 bases. Manual editing produces effectively 100% accuracy.

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/377_Chromatogram.html
 
Technically, it could be random. But it would take a very long time to accidently get every piece of the code in a complex organism right.

In the mean time, the program would fail to work and get caught in an endless loop someplace along the line.
 
Well, how long would it take to accidentally write a computer program that filled volumes and have it work correctly?

I agree with you on the complexity issue.

Now that computer program wouldn't by default be something as complex as a mammal. Life might have not "needed" DNA in it's early development.
 
Now that computer program wouldn't by default be something as complex as a mammal. Life might have not "needed" DNA in it's early development.

Then we would have to come up with a way that organism would be able to reproduce. Without DNA it would be a difficult thing to do.
 
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