Moin Thomas,
Deiner Metaphorik vermag ich kaum zu folgen; zum Glück haben wir auch Gemeinsamkeiten.
Falls Du die Grundlagenarbeit zur Physik der DNA noch nicht kennen solltest:
"Nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics of DNA" by Michel Peyrard:
http://moad.univ-lyon1.fr/sessions/Albi2007/nonlinearity_paper.pdf
<http://moad.univ-lyon1.fr/sessions/Albi2007/nonlinearity_paper.pdf>
Abstract "DNA is not only an essential object of study for biologists — it also
raises very interesting questions for physicists. This paper discuss its nonlinear
dynamics, its statistical mechanics, and one of the experiments that one can now perform
at the level of a single molecule and which leads to a non-equilibrium transition at the
molecular scale. After a review of experimental facts about DNA, we introduce simple
models of the molecule and show how they lead to nonlinear localization phenomena that
could describe some of the experimental observations. In a second step we analyse the
thermal denaturation of DNA, i.e. the separation of the two strands using standard
statistical physics tools as well as an analysis based on the properties of a single
nonlinear excitation of the model. The last part discusses the mechanical opening of the
DNA double helix, performed in single molecule experiments. We show how transition state
theory combined with the knowledge of the equilibrium statistical physics of the system
can be used to analyse the results.“
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