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Re:New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014) by espeed on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:59PM (#20219979)
A few weeks ago when I was searching for signs of cycloids hiding in nature, I came across scanned images of this obscure 1997 paper by Harvey A Jetmore Jr: "An Hypothesis of Antinomy [0]" Parts [1] and [2]. One idea that jumped out at me is Jetmore's hypothesized possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix, which he summarizes in Part 1: 8 and 9...

  8. I can not ignore the possible relationship of the
  inorganic and organic rhelms suggested by the transition of
  cycloidal to helical motion, whether the vining of the
  morning glory or the DNA helix. Could it be that evolution is
  a function of the relative cycloidal curvature of space; 
  location in time on the brachistocrone, so to speak, 
  ie: that evolution is a sort of continuous creation?

  9. It is tempting to suggest that the material world is the
  rehlm of the curate cycloid from the limit of the common
  cycloid to the limit of the circle. and that; 
  energy (waves) is the rehlm of the prolate cycloid from the
  limit of the common cycloid to the limit of the line, and
  that; the limit of the point/center/axis is the rehlm of the
  V-oid and the black hole: and that; 
  the inorganic world of life is the rhelm of the helix.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomy

[1] "An Hypothesis of Antinomy I: The V-oid" http://www.harveysspace.us/an-hypothesis-of-antinomy---i---t...

[2] "An Hypothesis of Antinomy II: Playing Dice with the Universe" http://www.harveysspace.us/an-hypothesis-of-antinomy-ii--pla...

NB: The formatting of the text on the Web page is a little messed up (scroll down to see scanned images of the paper).

Re:New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014) by gjm11 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:11PM (#20220052)
This looks to me like crankishness close to the Time Cube level. Is there some reason why you think it's worthy of attention, or relevant to this? (Beyond the fact that it mentions helices, I mean.)
Re:New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014) by espeed on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:25PM (#20220117)
Cycloidal paths show up throughout the quantum world (hints of which I've posted about before [1]). This is the first time I've seen anyone pose a possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix. And in any case, sometimes there are gems buried in unknown papers. As Eric Weinstein states it, many things are "Pre-Correct, Currently Crazy" [2] -- the trick is to find them.

[1] Some interesting properties of cycloids and places they show up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18586144

[2] MIT AI Podcast: Eric Weinstein - Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19458503

Re:New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014) by vokep on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:21PM (#20220098)
Am I understanding correctly that this is claiming to have placed our world within our known map of math? Honestly I believe something about like that to be the case, anyone actually determining it exactly and proving it however I expect to take awhile longer, this ain't it chief.