Humans more aligned with the universe!
Q. Humans are more aligned with the universe according to scientists who found the structure of our cell cytoplasm to be akin to what?- Published on 03 Nov 16a. Dwarf stars
b. Brown stars
c. Neutron stars
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Neutron stars
Humans may be more aligned with the universe than previously thought according to scientists who found the structure of the cell cytoplasm and neutron stars to be similar representing helical multi-storey parking garages.
- Researchers explored the biophysics of shapes-helices that connect stacks of evenly spaced sheet in endoplasmic reticulum. ER is the cellular organelle.
- Structures named Terasaki ramps were thought to be like soft matter (the interior of the cells) till scientists chanced upon the work of nuclear physicist Charles Horowitz at Indiana University in the United States.
- Using computer simulations, the same shapes were found deep in the crust of neutron stars.
- Nuclear physicists have a terminology for the entire class of shapes in high performance computer simulations of neutron stars- nuclear pasta.
- These include tubes/spaghetti and parallel sheets/lasagna connected by helical shapes that resemble Terasaki ramps.
- "For neutron stars, the strong nuclear force and the electromagnetic force create what is fundamentally a quantum-mechanical problem," said Greg Huber, a physicist who documented these discoveries.
- "In the interior of cells, the forces that hold together membranes are fundamentally entropic and have to do with the minimisation of the overall free energy of the system. At first glance, these could not be more different," said the scientist.
- Another difference is in the scale.
