As scientists were cleaning the outside of Magmarine-I (the first vessel to bring humans to the outer core), they couldn't help but notice a cool sensation when they placed their hands on its hull. After careful microscopic examination, they discovered the magmarine's hull was covered with extremophiles.
These heat-eating thermotrophs apparently thrived in the 200C-4000C environment mantle using a complex process that would later be termed predictive synchronization. This process capitalizes on the principle that photons from a 'randomly' moving atom usually reach the collision target nanoseconds before the electron clouds actually exchange kinetic energy. By amplifying this information before a collision occurs, thermotrophs have a brief window where they can effectively become <PERSON>'s deamon.
There are many kinds of thermotrophs, but all prokaryotic ones share two structural motifs: 1) their cell wall is covered in predictive synchronase complexes (PSC's), and 2) much of their cytoplasmic volume is occupied by an internal network of oscillitase-$\beta$.
PSC's are a family of protein complexes that include a light harvesting complex, predictase, and several oscillitase-$\alpha$ filaments which are each terminated by impactase. They're structured like this:
Light harvesting complexes (LHC's) are enzymes that capture energy from absorbed photons. Though LHC's typically feed into a reaction complex to perform photosynthesis, they have been applied in artificial photochemical conversion, so it seems reasonable that thermotrophs could perform something similar for photon detection. The individual enzymes of the LHC in PSC's are hemispherically-aranged, which enables the PSC to determine the overall electromagnetic gradient (which preceeds the kinetic energy gradient). 70
However given that liquids have a mean time to collision in the femtoseconds[^2] while the electron transfer from antanea chlorophyll is around 3 orders of magnitude slower, the PSC doesn't stand a chance of beating the thermokinetic energy front unless it utilizes some additional tricks. That's why most PSC's also include a spagetti-like enzyme known as predictase. This modecule fills a computational role similar to that of <PERSON> description of the microtubules in neurons: individual monomers in the network each function as a qubit and the network as a whole entangles to perform terahertz-frequency processing (excuse me for paraphrasing). With this computational budget at its disposall, predictase is able to store and simulate a primitive representation of the brownian force fields acting on its PSC's receptor area and use that simulation to predict from what direction the majority of molecules are likely to strike from and the optimal protein folding response to minimize destructive interference. Additionally, given the observation of quantum entanglement at a protein complex scale, we would not be surprise if these scientists later discover that the entire PSC complex is entangled such that it can exploit some kind of delayed choice or retrocausality to maximize its liklihood of success.
The actual physical responsibility of constructively absorbing thermo-kinetic energy falls on impactase-terminated oscillitase-$\alpha$ strands. oscillitase-$\alpha$ has long thin mostly-saturated hydrocarbon filaments that vibrate such that their terminal end naturally resonates with the substrate solution (the mantle's magma). Hevier $\mathrm{Fe}$ and $\mathrm{Co}$ metalloproteins known as impactase terminate these strands, and their mass eases the demand for a high oscillitase spring coefficient (which would require more complex, higher friction polymers) Finally, the whole oscillitase-$\alpha$-impactase subcomplex is under extreme conditions and denatures in a few minutes, but thermotrophs deal with this by retracting and repairing the oscillitase-$\alpha$-impactase subcomplex every few minutes. The subcomplex of the PSC looks like this (note the long thin hydrocarbon strands):
If you're a prokaryote reading this and you'd like to try out these enzymes yourself, just install the following base bair sequences into your genome:
```python
!/bin/env python3
thermotroph.py
import sys from synbio import make_split, make_sticky_end # not a real library atm
DNA for photosystem II P680 chlorophyll A apoprotein (used for the LHC antannae)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. 362