Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?
Disappearing in one place and reappearing in another. Being in two places at once. Communicating information seemingly faster than the speed of light.
This kind of weird behaviour is commonplace in dark, still laboratories studying the branch of physics called quantum mechanics, but what might it have to do with fresh flowers, migrating birds, and the smell of rotten eggs?
Welcome to the frontier of what is called quantum biology.
It is still a tentative, even speculative discipline, but what scientists are learning from it might just spark revolutions in the development of new drugs, computers and perfumes - or even help in the fight against cancer.
Until recently, the delicate states of matter predicted by quantum mechanics have only been accessed with the most careful experiments: isolated particles at blisteringly low temperatures or pressures approaching that of deep space.
The idea that biology - impossibly warm, wet and messy to your average physicist - should play host to these states was almost heretical.
But a few strands of evidence were bringing the idea into the mainstream, said Luca Turin of the Fleming Institute in Greece.
"There are definitely three areas that have turned out to be manifestly quantum," Dr Turin told the BBC. "These three things... have dispelled the idea that quantum mechanics had nothing to say about biology."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-21150047
Quantum Biology
Do weird physics effects abound in nature?
Started by Hasina , Jan 28 2013 11:35 PM
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