The Birth of the Double Helix

As we’ve seen throughout previous epochs, Q4P consistently raises the stakes, and it is never additive; it is always exponential. To clarify, things don’t simply get more complex, as in twice as complex, but rather on a scale more like:

(current complexity)2

This is the nature of Q4P∞ → C+ → E+.

This is exactly what happened when the first life made its appearance in the universe. For the first time ever in the world, something existed that could not only change and create complexity, but it could also retain its own complexity and proliferate – or spawn more things just like it.

The key to this was DNA. A double helix, or spiral, just as Birnbaum predicts. Everything that is alive has DNA. DNA is located in nearly every cell of something living within its nucleus.

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Think of DNA as a program that shows how that organism is built. The DNA contains all the necessary “computer code” to detail how to build itself. So, DNA from an oak tree contains all the information necessary on how to create an oak tree. This DNA is passed on, in this case, from tree to tree, in every seed that is dropped.

This unique aspect of life changed everything when it came to be. For the first time in the universe, things didn’t just react to physical forces. Instead, things (plants) could retain a “memory” of their own creation in order to multiply and make copies of themselves.

Remember how we mentioned that the true power of Q4P was its nested nature? Plants were the first realization of this nature taking physical form in the universe. Instead of just being a chemical reaction, they could multiply. This means they could actually fulfill the role of Q4P by expressing their infinite nature in that they could make copies of themselves – forever!

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