Generalized crystallography, the genetic system and biochemical esthetics
| Autor: | Zhengbing Hu, S V Petoukhov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
030103 biophysics Fibonacci number Noise immunity media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology Scientific field Condensed Matter Physics 03 medical and health sciences Crystallography Perception 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Golden ratio Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Musical harmony media_common Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Structural Chemistry. 28:239-247 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9001 1040-0400 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11224-016-0880-0 |
| Popis: | The article is written for the special journal issue dedicated to Alan L. Mackay on his 90th birthday. The remarkable ideas of Alan L. Mackay about generalized crystallography, its connections with encoding of information, and also the interrelationship between art and science generate many ideas and their consequences. Mackay paid a special attention to the theme of five-fold symmetry, Fibonacci numbers and the golden section, which are essential in the structures of quasicrystals and living bodies. The present article considers a continuation of this theme in relation to the genetic coding system and to ratios of musical harmony. Hidden connections between the matrix representations the genetic code system and the golden section and the Pythagoras’s theory of esthetics of proportions are described. Such connections testify the validity of the molecular-genetic foundation of many known facts about inborn feeling of harmony in our perceptions, which becomes a part of the scientific field of “biochemical esthetics” (the term first introduced by Russian biophysicist S. Shnoll, 7). Data from theory of resonances and mathematics of noise-immunity coding of information are used in the article. |
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