Paradigms catastrophic

The benign shock paradigm is clearly an approximation, but one that has proven very effective. The catastrophic shock paradigm corresponds to the known physical, mechanical, and chemical processes, but its characteristics have proven difficult to quantify. 

A description of shock-compressed solids in terms of the catastrophic shock paradigm was stated many years ago by Kormer [68K02] as ... 

This statement represents an apt, terse description of the elastic-plastic shock-deformation process within the catastrophic shock paradigm. 

Primitive RNAs, in conclusion, could certainly behave both as genes and enzymes, but this does not save the replication paradigm, because it cannot avoid the various catastrophes that necessarily affect all replicators. 

Let us now come to the second part of postchemical evolution, the stage that was destined to lead to the origin of the first cells. It is in this stage that we must look for an answer to the problem that the replication paradigm has been unable to solve how did primitive systems manage to increase their complexity without being destroyed by error catastrophes The ribotype answer is based on three points. 

The catastrophic cyclone Sidr that wrecked havoc Bangladesh in 2007, tsunami hit most of the countries of Asia around Indian ocean in 2004, Katrina hit Arkansas in 2005, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers in 2001 are dear indication that we are not prepared for disaster recovery at all. In all cases the infrastructure could not withstand the fury of nature, even in the case of WTC the NYPD was not prepared for such gigantic task of rescue mission. The conventional reaction to such disaster is not adequate a new paradigm shift is needed to address such calamities utilizing all resources at hand. Disaster recovery is defined to be the emergency response function which deals with the collapse of man made structures (G. Nejat, 2006). In any disaster either man made or due to Mother nature, the elementary tasks at hand are (i) reach the affected hazardous field (ii) find and get information about victims, and (iii) rescue as many of them as pwssible. 

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