Aperiodic structure of genetic molecules enables exponential diversity of encodable information compared to periodic crystals.

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• "We believe a gene—or perhaps the whole chromosome fibre—to be an aperiodic solid."concept0.807
  Schrödinger's hypothesis about the physical nature of the hereditary substance.
• The hereditary substance is a single huge aperiodic molecule capable of discrete configuration changes (mutations) via quantum jumps.hypothesis0.782
  Schrödinger's central hypothesis, later confirmed by discovery of DNA structure.
• Schrödinger understood the importance of aperiodicity for information capacity some time before Shannon's work explained it, anticipating key ideas about transmission and storage of information vehicles.claim0.780
  Historical priority claim regarding information theory.
• The number of atoms involved in the responsible gene structure is likely to be very small, yet it displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous, remaining unperturbed by the disordering tendency of heat motion for centuries.claim0.778
  Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.
• If the gene is a large molecule with discrete quantum states and high energy barriers between isomeric configurations, then it will exhibit long-term stability and rare spontaneous mutations.hypothesis0.773
  The core predictive hypothesis derived from Delbrück's model.
• Isomeric molecules are equally stable despite identical energy levels because transition requires passage through higher-energy intermediate configurations.finding0.764
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.764
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Information Capacity of Aperiodic Sequencesconcept0.762
  The exponential growth in combinatorial possibilities with sequence length, allowing vast genetic information storage.