Dredd Blog: Small Brains Considered

This series and others have considered mathematical patterns that scientists have stumbled across over the years (e.g. On The Origin of The Containment Entity where "The fine-structure constant" was considered; cf. last video below).

I mentioned Dr. Roger Penrose in the previous post of this series, which considered the pattern I discovered in DNA (~32/35/25/6).

In a different way Dr. Penrose is also known for discovering a 'pattern':

"Certainly one of the great scientists of our time, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work reconciling black holes with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

But back in the 1970s, Roger Penrose made a contribution to the world of mathematics and that part of mathematics known as tiling. You know, tiling, the process of putting tiles together so that they form a particular pattern. The thing that was remarkable about the pattern that Roger Penrose developed is that by using only two shapes, he constructed a pattern that could be expanded infinitely in any direction without ever repeating. Much like the number pi has a decimal that isn’t random, but it will go on forever without repeating. In mathematics, this is a property known as aperiodicity and the notion of an aperiodic tile set using only two tiles was such a sensation, it was given the name Penrose tiling...

Then in 2007, this man, Peter Lu, who was then a graduate student in physics at Princeton, while on vacation with his cousin in Uzbekistan, discovered this pattern on a 14th century madrassa. And after some analysis, concluded that this was, in fact, Penrose tiling 500 years before Penrose.

That information took the scientific world by storm and prompted headlines everywhere, including “Discover” magazine, which proclaimed this the 59th most important scientific discovery of the year 2007. So now we've heard about this amazing pattern from the point of view of mathematics and from physics and now art and archeology."

(Excerpts from the first video below). Scientists and others "go all over the place" when trying to "make sense" of it, so why not just say "we don't know" as was suggested in the previous post of this series?

Today, the appendices show examples of an atomic pattern in DNA.

The Appendix TOC (table of contents) has links to the other appendices, as well as table numbers (1-295) and the type of DNA (human, microbe) detailed in each of those other appendices.

New Grand Totals table columns 'Variation', 'Low', and 'High' show that the variations away from the (~32/35/25/6) pattern are, except for a few instances, are less than 1%.

The tables and totals of the appendices detail "the DNA (~32/35/25/6) pattern" in the DNA of all kinds of different people and microbes.

I don't know why that atomic-level pattern is there (how I determine the pattern is detailed in On The Origin of The Containment Entity - 16).

If you have any questions please reference the Table Number or appendix identity ('A' - 'M') in today's appendices in your comments or emails.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.