Before modification by Isaac at 05/07/2013 09:31:09 PM
Neutrinos and Electrons are part of the particle group known as leptons. Now essentially leptons are composed of two types, the charged type and the uncharged ones. Charged are the electorn, muon, and tau, each of which has an antiparticle with reverse charge, the electrons is called the positron but the other two are just anti-muon and anti-tau. Flip side is the nuetrino, which is three types, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, and tau neutrino along with their 'anti' forms which are essentially indistinguishable, same spin and lack of charge, but opposite chirality (twit) IIRC. Now muon and tau are basically the electron's rare big brother, muons do form naturally, but they live for 2 millionths of a second, tau I don't know if it forms naturally or not, presumably somewhere they do, but we made ours rather than found them. Much like the quarks, up/down is the base with 4 other bigger forms, electron/positron is the base with 2 other forms.
Now Supersymettry, more commonly SUSY, is/was a fairly popular theory but while still probably the most popular it is a little degraded from lack of evidence from LHC and I'm going to do everyone here a favor and not even try to explain it especially while the theory is in limbo, beyond it having to do with particles that parallel existing known particles but have different spin and/or charge.
DNA's not my zone, I did do theoretical biophysics but even then my interest was in a cell powerplant, so to speak, not its harddrive. I'm not sure if we have any resident microbiologist to defer to so I'll speak up if I know but 'grain of salt' applies to all remarks.
That describes a lot of scientists too
Well better maybe to think of it as A, C, T/U, G and there are other possible base pairs too, but yeah.
Again, yeah, its not really about symmetry there so much as knowing eahc 'rung' is an A-T/U or G-C
Mary Jane usually isn't a very good nootropic.
Yes, that just means a base pair is 2 bits of data, not 1 bit. I wouldn't think over the 'reverse' angle of this much, this is pretty safe and well known math, akin to four separately colored balls or a switch that isn't up/down but up/down and left/right, so you get UL, UR, DL, DR.
Well we have a name for double binary, its called Quaternary and much like hexidecimal its one of the easiest to work with if you're already used to binary, as opposed to migraine-generators like ternary (Switch up, down, middle) or some of the really screwy ones like Oksapmin base-27 or non-matched suberbases, mixed-radix, or quater-imaginary - binary and composites, base 4, 8, 16, 32, etc are easiest.
Well to the contrary we have never been 'stuck' with binary, its just works well in multiple ways, extensive non-binary computing has been done, IIRC one of the first computers was ternary, pre-civil war.
Well it all made sense, its just not really new, and quantum computing is really just an entirely different ballpark, different sport really, from biocomputing.