- 4018 - QUANTUM MECHANICS - when it becomes biology? 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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MECHANICS - when it
becomes biology?
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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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