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- Using short pulsed lasers to view inside bacterial proteins biologists can witness hopping electrons and dancing electrons making seemingly impossible leaps to appear to inhabit multiple places at once.
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- What biologists are trying to discover is how proteins processed by plants, and some microbes, can convert CO2 and sunlight into O2 and carbohydrates that we can breath and eat. We call this process photosynthesis.
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- Plants can do photosynthesis more efficiently than anything we have invented to date. What is just now surprising us is that plants appear to be using the laws of Quantum Mechanics.
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- Biology has always been the study of molecules, proteins, and DNA. Quantum Mechanics is the study of electrons, protons, muons, and quarks. Quantum Mechanics studies such small particles that they can not be distinguished from waves of energy. At the Quantum Mechanic dimensions everything has a wave-particle duality.
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- In photosynthesis is the dancing electron a tangible particle or an oscillating wave of energy?
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- Quantum Mechanics would describe this dancing electron as a Wave Function. When the wave-function collapses into a particle it sends ripples through space-time that is entangled with other particles that could be widely separated in space.
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- The communications appears to be instantaneous, faster then the speed of light, or any electromagnetic radiation. We think 186,000 miles per second is the fastest thing possible but this would be faster.
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- Are plants really using Quantum Mechanics to change carbon dioxide into oxygen?
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- Are hopping electrons jumping energy gaps the same as what we call Quantum Tunneling in the computer sciences and semi-conductor technology?
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- Until now biology assumed that the thermal noise of life ( at room temperatures) would drown out any quantum effects occurring at the atomic level. Using lasers as strobe lights emitting pulses every 10^-15 seconds allows nano-scale precision in positioning. Biology is beginning to view life’s quantum dances.
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- Plants have solar cells called chromosomes and somehow they collect energy from sunlight and send it to the cells with 95% efficiency. Somehow the light energy travels in many directions at once and then collapses following the single most effective path to the cell.
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- Our best man-made solar cells operate at 20% efficiency. Practical solar cells that we could buy for our house operate at 5% efficiency. If we could do it like plants we could convert the Sun’s energy we receive with 95% efficiency.
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- Can we design and manufacture cheap-efficient solar power cells out of organic molecules? If we understand Quantum Mechanics we can. But, as Professor Feynman said, “If we are not totally confused than we do not understand it.”
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- It is not just in photosynthesis that biology is discovering Quantum Mechanics. Biology is now convinced that this process is how we have our sense of smell. The nose works by using Quantum Tunneling.
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- There are some 350 types of human smell receptors. When a new odorant enters the nostril and reaches the olfactory nerve the odorant molecule attaches to the nerve’s receptor and electrons from the receptor uses Quantum Tunneling to pass through the odorant, causing oscillations of a unique pattern to distinguish a rose from a wet dog.
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- This is a little like passing your credit card through a reader at the super market. The frequency of oscillation patterns, not the shape of the odorant molecules, determines the scent of the molecule. The electron Tunnels through the molecule and reads a unique pattern of vibrations that our brain recognizes.
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- Quantum Mechanics is the main reason I drink red wine. Free radical molecules which are the by-products of the body’s breakdown of food and environmental toxins, have a spare electron. That extra electron traveling through my bloodstream is not a good thing.
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- But, antioxidants in red wine ( green tea, some fruits and vegetables, but I prefer red wine) called catechins provide another electron that Quantum Tunnels across the gap of the free radical. The electrons become chemically bound preventing them from interacting and damaging cells in my body.
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- Some anesthesiologists are convinced that their anesthetics like xenon and isoflurane gas operate at the quantum level to switch off the conscious mind. Therefore, consciousness must be operating with some form of Quantum Mechanics.
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- My conscious mind is a giant entanglement of dynamic quantum -mechanical dancing. I knew that!!! Except , I do not think mine is operating faster -than -light subatomic communications. I can not type that fast.
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- My dreams are subconscious emotions and my memory is fuzzy. So, my brain must surely be in the quantum world. How about yours?
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- Other Reviews available, request number:
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- 2287 - The Universe is a computer. Also list 16 more Reviews on this subject of Quantum Mechanics.
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- 1028 Quantum Mechanics Applied to Astronomy
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- 1032 The Atom’s Stability with Uncertainty
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- 1026 The Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Mechanics
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- 1027 The Exclusion Principle in Quantum Mechanics.
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- 688 The Universe is a Computer
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