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Atomic Physics
Cell Biology
1
1
Gnergy
Mattergy
2
3
2
3
Fermions
(protons,
neutrons,
electrons)
Bosons
(photons,
gluons)
Gnons
(genetic
information,
e.g.,
Ergons
(matter &
energy)
cytons*
)
5
5
4
4
Leptons
(electrons,
muons)
Hadrons
(protons,
neutrons)
Equilibrons
(molecules,
ions)
Dissipatons
(concentration
gradients)
gluons
IDSs
photons
conformons
Fig. 10.4 Amore detailed network representation of the atom-cell isomorphism postulate (ACIP).
The claim of ACIP that the structures and functions of the atom and the cell share a common set of
principles and features thought to be reflected in the symmetry between the topologies of the two
networks: Although the labels of the nodes and edges are different, the two networks are
topologically identical. It is interesting to note that, since mattergy and ergons are synonymous,
the mattergy tree (i.e., atomic physics) is enfolded in the gnergy tree (i.e., cell biology), which
makes the topology self-similar or recursive (Sect. 5.2.4 ). For the unusual terms indicated by
italics, see the text. *The term cyton was coined in (Ji 1991, pp. 110-114) to indicate the physical
mediator of the cell force. The cell force is postulated to be the fifth force of Nature (after the
strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational forces) that is responsible for the life-preserving
dissipative structures of the living cell, in analogy to the gluon that mediates the equilibrium
structure-preserving strong force acting inside the nucleus of the atom despite the electrostatic
repulsion between protons (Han 1999). The non-Abelian gauge theory of Yang and Mills (Huang
2007) provides a qualitative support for the concept of the cell force as detailed in my January 19,
1990 letter to Prof. C. N. Yang (see Appendix K), and it is hoped that this letter will be of some
interest to those mathematical physicists who may be interested in mathematicizing the cell force
concept only qualitatively connected to the Yang-Mills gauge theory in Table 10.1 in the latter
 
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