As I am ever curious about how our sensory apparatus works, I have found this idea attractive. Don't be put off by the title of the video but get through the video until 12:28 when the gentleman scientist describes what DNA looks like and why he thinks it might be acting like a fractal antenna. Whether this is true or not, I don't know. But I latched onto it and it made lots of sense to me. Fractal antennas are what they are currently using in modern cell phones, you might notice that cell phones no longer have antenna points sticking out. Fractal antennas allow a much more compact area to receive multiple frequencies instead of just one frequency, you can find images on Google if you try but I don't think it will enlighten you anymore ince they do not "look" like DNA coils.
The most important part out of the DNA structure is that not only does it twist ONCE and the twist a second time and coil, but it probably twists three times. The video describes this but you can demonstrate for your self ( or watch my iphone video below....... just take a piece of string and you twist one end,..... if you keep twisting and give the string room you will notice that it will develop a second coil the more you keep twisting that you can develop a third and fourth and fifth coil if you have enough string you can keep doing this and have the coils you created create a new larger coil and you can keep going as long as you have string. I believe what they're trying to say in the cell phone video is that each coil can mark different defined lengths, and these different lengths can then act as frequency reception wavelength matches.
Remember how our old antenna used to look ( see below approximation)? Each reception bar is physically cut and pre-defined link on the antenna is cut to match the wave"length" of the particular frequency you wanted to receive. I'm Thinking that in the DNA coils each length from coil to coil could mark a stop and start length which would be able to match up against and send\recieve different frequency wavelengths. If this Is true then this would give us another sensory mechanism by which we could receive information via unseen wavelengths.
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How a 6 ft long DNA is fractal athena around View the video starting at 12:28 of the Linked Video below. This is also why such a long strand of DNA can be put in such a compact area I'm thinking ameoba here).
Because words don't always draw a good picture I included this iphone video of a rope being coiled in order to show better how the DNA coils within the body beyond the common helix twist picture which we are all familiar with.