Zachriel
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Meanwhile Robert Deyes gives himself a headache with exponents.
| Quote | | The Infinite Headaches Of The Adjacent Impossible: This means that for a protein that is 200 amino acids long, there are approximately 20200 possible ways that these amino acids can be lined up (ie 10260 proteins). Given that the total number of particles in the known universe is estimated to be around 1080 and considering Kauffman’s own calculation for the total number of reactions since the big bang as being 10193, it is easy to see that the universe has not been around for long enough to cover even a small fraction of these 10260 proteins. |
Of course that assumes the poppycock notion that there is exactly one sequence out of those 20200 possible sequences that could be a possible precusor to life, and that 200 is the minimum length.
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