Maximum Entropy (Most Likely) Double Helical and Double Logarithmic Spiral Trajectories in Space-Time.

ABSTRACT: The ubiquity of double helical and logarithmic spirals in nature is well observed, but no explanation is ever offered for their prevalence. DNA and the Milky Way galaxy are examples of such structures, whose geometric entropy we study using an information-theoretic (Shannon entropy) complex-vector analysis to calculate, respectively, the Gibbs free energy difference between B-DNA and P-DNA, and the galactic virial mass. Both of these analytic calculations (without any free parameters) are consistent with observation to within the experimental uncertainties. We define conjugate hyperbolic space and entropic momentum co-ordinates to describe these spiral structures in Minkowski space-time, enabling a consistent and holographic Hamiltonian-Lagrangian system that is completely isomorphic and c

SUBMITTER: Parker MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658702 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature