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· in the course of any kind of (not necessarily geometrical) transformation

(operation)

· at least one (not necessarily geometrical) characteristic of

· the affected (arbitrary and not necessarily geometrical) object remains

invariant (unchanged).

“Symmetry breaking” [100] can be simply defined as loss of symme­

try which is in turn defined by Statement (2.23). For example, the graph

of the Gaussian­like equation, Eq. (8.9), is symmetric due to the squaring

of the exponent, (x – μ)^2 , whereas the graph of Planckian distribution

equation, Eq. (8.3), is not symmetric. These two graphs are shown in

Figures 8.6 (g), (i), (k), (o), (r), and (t). Therefore, any physicochemical

processes that can be represented in terms of the transition from GLE to

PDE would implicate “symmetry­breaking”. That is, all the organized

processes (called Planckian processes) shown in Figure 8.6 implicate sym-

metry breakings. Symmetry breaking must entail dissipating free energy

in order not to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

2.12 The Association–Induction Hypothesis

In 1962, G. N. Ling proposed the association–induction hypothesis [1]

wherein the concepts of “association” and “induction” are defined in the

context of the interactions between proteins and water molecules as follows:

... there is strong cohesion not only between the different components

of the cell, that is, between proteins and water but also among indi­

vidual elements of the same components, that is, between proteins and

proteins as well as between water and water. Indeed, this is a statement

of one of the basic tenets of the association–induction hypothesis:

association.... [102]

The concept of “association” is represented diagrammatically in

Figure 2.9: water molecules (represented as circles) associate with

charged groups on a protein molecule in an extended conformation (see

the right­hand side figure) and among themselves in a multilayered water

structure on the protein surface. When protein folds (see the left­hand side

figure), it induces the desorption of ATP from its binding site. The ordered

(2.23)

(2.24)

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