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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Repeat of Kalki challenge
- Message-ID: <98701@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:02:44 GMT
- References: <9211172216.AA26140@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov20.203500.4098@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In-reply-to: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
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- In article <1992Nov20.203500.4098@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jgacker@news (James G. Acker) writes:
- > Let's discuss a REAL theory of abiogenesis.
-
- One REAL theory of abiogenesis is the work of Anderson and others using
- spin-glass models. See, for example, Rokhsar, Anderson, Stein "Self-
- organization in prebiological systems: simulations of a model for the
- origin of genetic information" JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 23, 119-
- 126 (1986).
-
- In short, spin-glasses are one of the physicist's favorite examples of
- broken symmetry, and of the formation of useful information in a random
- context. It was quite natural for Anderson, a Nobel laureate for this
- very topic, to show how it could apply to abiogenesis.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-