“Unlimited Possibilities” – New Law of Physics Could Predict Genetic Mutations



The research shows that the "infodynamics," or second law of information dynamics, acts differently from the "second law of thermodynamics." This discovery may have far-reaching effects on the future directions of genetic research, evolutionary biology, computers, big data, physics, and cosmology.

Dr. Melvin Vopson, the primary author, is a graduate of the university's School of Mathematics and Physics. "There are laws in physics that regulate everything that happens in the universe, such as how objects move, how energy flows, and so on," he asserts. The laws of physics are the foundation of everything. The second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy, a measure of disorder in an isolated system, may either rise or remain constant but never fall, is one of the most potent laws.

Time only flows in one direction, according to this unquestionable law about the arrow of time. It cannot move backward and can only move forward.

Imagine two translucent glass boxes, the speaker says. Red gas molecules can be seen on the left side, appearing to be red smoke. There is a barrier between the blue smoke on the right side and them. The two gases will start mingling if the barrier is removed, changing the color. This system is not capable of separating blue and red on its own once more. To put it another way, as entropy only rises or remains constant over time, it is impossible to reduce it or order the system to how it was previously.

Information physicist Dr. Vopson. His work focuses on information systems, which can include everything from the hard drive in a laptop to the DNA and RNA in living things. In order to write this work, he collaborated with Dr. Serban Lepadatu from the University of Central Lancashire.

Dr. Vopson continues, "I assumed that possibly information entropy would be the same whether the second rule of thermodynamics dictates that entropy needs to stay constant or increase over time. However, Dr. Lepadatu and I discovered the exact reverse, that it gets smaller over time. The second law of thermodynamics and the second law of information dynamics are complete opposites.

Dr. Vopson hypothesized that this might be the reason for genetic alterations in living things.

Natural selection determines whether a mutation is advantageous or detrimental to an organism once it occurs at random, according to the general consensus, he said. A mutation will be retained if it benefits the organism. But what if these alterations are the result of a secret process? We label things as "random," "chaotic," or "paranormal" whenever we observe anything we don't understand, yet this labeling is merely a result of our inability to explain them. We can use this new physics law to anticipate mutations - or the chance of mutations - in advance if we can begin to perceive genetic mutations from a deterministic perspective.

The Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) genomes were examined by Dr. Vopson and colleagues, who found that the information entropy of these genomes decreased over time: "The best example of something that experiences a multitude of mutations in a short amount of time is a virus. Since Sars-CoV-2 evolved into so many different types throughout the pandemic, we now have the perfect test sample.

The second law of infodynamics is supported by the Covid data, and the research offers countless opportunities, the author says. Consider analyzing a specific genome to see whether a mutation will be advantageous before it occurs. This ground-breaking technology may have applications in pandemic research, pharmaceutical manufacturing, evolutionary biology, and genetic therapy.

By UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH 

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