Dr. James Tour

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The code problem, where did the code come from?

Again, Lee has underscored this as well.

We don't know where the genetic code came from.

Chiral induced spin selectivity tells us we had to have chirality.

We had to have this asymmetric sort of system before life ever started.

The whole protein folding problem.

How do proteins fold?

The chances of that are about 10 to the minus 95 just for a 100 unit segment.

What does that mean for the general public?

There's not enough time in the universe.

The interactome problem.

There's not enough time in a million universes.

Simple.

Lee, can anybody come with a hypothesis of how life was made without just saying that the primordial soup model is a good model?

Can you flesh that out a little bit for us?

That's what I would say.

Well, I think it's going to have to have homeostasis, which means that it has an internal steady state.

If you look at life, it is highly ordered so that the entropy is very low, which means it's highly ordered and it's of very high energy.

There are very few systems that have that sort of thing, but it's more complex than that.

Yes, it has to be able to have offspring.

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