James Tour
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1,512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
James Tour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you put in each bottle, each one of these four classes of compounds and all the ions in another bottle, and say, okay, not on an early Earth, but just in your modern laboratory, can you take all of these chemicals and just make a cell?
Here's all the components of a cell.
And in fact, in here, you also have the informational code.
You have to have the code.
The code is the DNA that prescribes how this is going to be assembled.
Just like when you build a house, you have to have the plans to build this thing.
That code is what you need.
And so...
When I give you the polymers in full form, that's the informational code because that's the sentence.
The DNA, that's the code.
That's the sentence that has you.
The discrete molecules, before you polymerize them, that's just letters.
It's like a bunch of letters, alphabetic letters.
That means nothing.
That has no words.
And those don't come together and form any construct of words.
If you shake it a lot, you might see the word...
T-H-E, you might find the word in, but you're not going to get much.
You're not going to get much out of this.
And you have to have a lot of prescription here.
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