A Beautiful Instance of Well Tempered Helical Biophysics

 One of my main objects for this blog has been gathering evidence ceaselessly since its inception of the  remarkable harmonic ordering of biophysical "space." Today, I came across yet another instance of such higher ordering in the tradition of Pasteur's approach to distinguishing chiral enantiomeric signatures of life. 

Here is an illustration of a helical conformation of a "chromonena." Full paper is here.

Helical coiling of the chromonema. (A) Model of the chromatin organization in barley metaphase chromosomes. Bottom right: loops of the 80 nm lower-order chromatin fibre, formed of consecutive nucleosomes. Consecutive loops of simulated chromatin coloured as in our microscopic observation form the chromonema, which coils fill completely the chromatid without large cavities. Adjacent chromonema turns intermingle at their edges due to the flexibility of the smaller 80 nm fibres present within the chromonema. The helical order is interrupted at centromeres and secondary constrictions displaying mainly straight 80 nm chromatin fibers. The chromosomal termini contain less condensed, more flexible chromatin. Due to this flexibility, the telomeres may be embedded into the subtelomeric chromatin and not appear at the very end of the chromatid. The left long chromatid is shown as a stretched helix representing its higher-order chromatin folding based on oligo-FISH labeling. The different colours represent incomplete (white + green) and complete (magenta + green) chromonema turns, respectively. (B) Parameters of helically organized somatic metaphase chromosomes of barley compared to other species. Chromatid helix turn sizes and nested loop sizes are based on Hi-C data.

Compare this with my previous post and you perhaps will find a rather outré quality of coherent synchronicity! That is truly quite beautiful in the sense that Keats poetically summed up once upon a time.

Higher Principle of Harmonic Biophysical Functions

Here is the wonderful image of the recent three dimensional map produced for the inner ear by Uppsala University researcher Hao Li, et al. at the Bio-Medical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) 05ID-2 beamline at the Canadian Light Source, Inc. (CLSI) in Saskatoon using synchrotron radiation phase-contrast imaging (SR-PCI.) The paper can be found here.

Ear membrane and auditory nerve in the cochlea. The octave bands have been given different colors. Humans can perceive frequencies from 20 Hz (the top of the coil) to 20,000 Hz (the base of the coil). The image also shows the round window, the oval window where sound enters and the facial nerve.
CREDIT Hao Li

I have reported on the issue of Helmholtz model of hearing versus Riemann previously. Can anyone viewing the indescribable beauty of this spiral octave photo of the inner ear still argue that somehow biophysics is organized according to random genetic mutations that parallel random acausality of entropic physics assumptions? Really this beautiful image of such exquisite coherent organization should clear that up. Please see my further discussion here.