If X-rays produce mutations by energetic single events (ionization), then their efficiency should not depend on the gene's spontaneous mutability.

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• If mutations are isomeric jumps between states with different energy levels separated by a high barrier, then the forward and reverse mutation rates should differ, with the transition from higher to lower energy occurring more frequently.hypothesis0.798
  Hypothesis on the directionality of mutation rates.
• How can we, from the point of view of statistical physics, reconcile the facts that the gene structure seems to involve only a comparatively small number of atoms and nevertheless displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous?question0.791
  The specific puzzle about the stability of the genetic material.
• If temperature increases, then the mutability of stable wild-type genes should increase more than that of already less stable mutant genes.hypothesis0.787
  Schrödinger's testable hypothesis linking thermal energy to mutation rates.
• 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.claim0.776
  Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.773
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Mutations are quantum jumps between isomeric states of the gene molecule.claim0.772
  The discontinuous, jumping nature of mutations is explained by the discrete energy levels of the gene molecule.
• 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.hypothesis0.769
  The core predictive hypothesis derived from Delbrück's model.
• Suppression of cancer phenotypes despite strong oncogenic mutations via forced bioelectrical connections among cells, overriding single-cell goals with morphogenetic ones.finding0.761
  Empirical demonstration that bioelectric network topology, not genetic state, determines whether cellular optimization occurs at single-cell (cancer) vs. organ level.