You can see under an ordinary light microscope that a DNA polymer is nearly a macroscopic object. But in a strict quantal sense can we expect quasiclassical behaviour, i.e., describability by a reduced density matrix, resembling closely a measured system? So is it a self-measured system, produced by chemical evolution? If so, might it be the very reason of the endophysics-exophysics transition, so the coming about of a measurer observed World? And if even so yes, what physical variable of the underlying Galilei group suffered symmetry breaking? Could it be Universal Evolutional time? So is life ruled by time asymmetry,characteristic of "continous measurements" inside the system?
I would not go into it, if you don't mind. If in your opinion DNA has no special properties, we got nothing to discuss any further, sorry, Sir. But if I will find in my computer's (so far) unfathomable depths where I lost the file of my almost finished manuscript on the quantum theory of the origin of the genetic code, and will publish it in Bioscience, if you wish, you could have my views there in details.
Hi,
Maybe I miss your point, do you mean DNA is always the same in chemically?
DNA molecule can be seen as a stable macromolecule under the microscope. However, it is a highly dynamic structure in the cell. It is always manipulated by proteins. Transcription of genes is controlled by environmental factors (inside or outside of the cell (organ or organism). There are many examples. Even its 3D structure is not the same inside one chromosome.
How can we expect quasiclassical behavior? Can you explain a little more?
Thanks
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