[MD] Do genes experience?

[Heather Perella]

Hello All,

     Physicists state photons are information.  Light
is information.  When it comes down to it that's what
light does and is. (Check excerpt of an article below)
 Now we have fiber optics.  Photons, atoms are
involved on that larger realm of genes.  Here are some
questions.  What is information for it to correspond
or be in these realms of matter/energy?  Information
does suggest something.  What's interesting is how
skin will have information, yet, the brain will
generate enough energy of information (if we can say
it that way) that consciousness takes place where a
nervous system collects, analyzes, and has us even ask
questions about it (thus it wonders even about itself
- it is conscious - it can be who we call us).

     Here is an excerpt from an article from January
2001 discussing this information as follows:  
     (found at -
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2001/split/521-1.htm)

     "For the first time, physicists in two separate
laboratories have effectively brought a light pulse to
a stop. In the process, physicists have accomplished
another first: the non-destructive and reversible
conversion of the information carried by light into a
coherent atomic form. Sending a light pulse into
specially prepared rubidium (Rb) vapor, a group at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics led by Ron
Walsworth (617-495-7274) and Mikhail Lukin
(617-496-7611) has (1) slowed the pulse's "group
velocity" to zero and (2) stored its information in
the form of an atomic "spin wave," a collective
excitation in the Rb atoms. (A spin wave can be
visualized as a collective pattern in the orientation
of the atoms, which spin like tops and hence act like
tiny bar magnets. "Spin" is merely the name for the
tiny magnetic vector in each of the atoms.) The atomic
spin wave is coherent and long-lived, which enables
the researchers to store the light pulse's information
and then convert it back into a light pulse with the
same properties as the original pulse.

This new accomplishment in a simple system increases
the promise for quantum communication, which may
someday be used to connect potentially ultrafast
quantum computers in a large network analogous to the
Internet. Usually photons (the quanta of light) are
absorbed by atoms, destroying the information carried
by the light. With the present method, in principle,
no information in the light pulse is lost." 


SA

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