The article below explores the idea of efficiency, a course that nature knows well.
If any of this is true, then in my view, it should change our concepts of what we are and possibly
answer a lot of questions involving religion and the paranormal.
'If there’s any subject that perfectly encapsulates the idea that science is hard to understand,
it’s quantum physics.
Scientists tell us that the miniature denizens of the quantum realm behave in seemingly impossible
ways: they can exist in two places at once, or disappear and reappear somewhere else instantly.
The one saving grace is that these truly bizarre quantum behaviours don’t seem to have much
of an impact on the macroscopic world as we know it, where “classical” physics rules the roost.
Or, at least, that’s what scientists thought until a few years ago.
Now that reassuring wisdom is starting to fall apart. Quantum processes may occur not quite
so far from our ordinary world as we once thought.
Quite the opposite: they might be at work behind some very familiar processes, from the
photosynthesis that powers plants – and ultimately feeds us all – to the familiar sight of birds
on their seasonal migrations.
Quantum physics might even play a role in our sense of smell.
In fact, quantum effects could be something that nature has recruited into its battery of tools
to make life work better, and to make our bodies into smoother machines.
It’s even possible that we can do more with help from the strange quantum world than we
could without it.
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At one level, photosynthesis looks very simple.
Plants, green algae and some bacteria take in sunlight and carbon dioxide, and turn them
into energy.
What niggles in the back of biologists minds, though, is that photosynthetic organisms
make the process look just a little bit too easy.
It’s one part of photosynthesis in particular that puzzles scientists
A photon – a particle of light – after a journey of billions of kilometres hurtling through
space, collides with an electron in a leaf outside your window.
The electron, given a serious kick by this energy boost, starts to bounce around, a little
like a pinball. It makes its way through a tiny part of the leaf’s cell, and passes on its extra
energy to a molecule that can act as an energy currency to fuel the plant.
The trouble is, this tiny pinball machine works suspiciously well.
Classical physics suggests the excited electron should take a certain amount of time to
career around inside the photosynthetic machinery in the cell before emerging on the other
side. In reality, the electron makes the journey far more quickly.
What’s more, the excited electron barely loses any energy at all in the process.
Classical physics would predict some wastage of energy in the noisy business of being batted
around the molecular pinball machine.
The process is too fast, too smooth and too efficient. It just seems too good to be
true...'
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If any of this is true, then in my view, it should change our concepts of what we are and possibly
answer a lot of questions involving religion and the paranormal.
'If there’s any subject that perfectly encapsulates the idea that science is hard to understand,
it’s quantum physics.
Scientists tell us that the miniature denizens of the quantum realm behave in seemingly impossible
ways: they can exist in two places at once, or disappear and reappear somewhere else instantly.
The one saving grace is that these truly bizarre quantum behaviours don’t seem to have much
of an impact on the macroscopic world as we know it, where “classical” physics rules the roost.
Or, at least, that’s what scientists thought until a few years ago.
Now that reassuring wisdom is starting to fall apart. Quantum processes may occur not quite
so far from our ordinary world as we once thought.
Quite the opposite: they might be at work behind some very familiar processes, from the
photosynthesis that powers plants – and ultimately feeds us all – to the familiar sight of birds
on their seasonal migrations.
Quantum physics might even play a role in our sense of smell.
In fact, quantum effects could be something that nature has recruited into its battery of tools
to make life work better, and to make our bodies into smoother machines.
It’s even possible that we can do more with help from the strange quantum world than we
could without it.
At one level, photosynthesis looks very simple.
Plants, green algae and some bacteria take in sunlight and carbon dioxide, and turn them
into energy.
What niggles in the back of biologists minds, though, is that photosynthetic organisms
make the process look just a little bit too easy.
It’s one part of photosynthesis in particular that puzzles scientists
A photon – a particle of light – after a journey of billions of kilometres hurtling through
space, collides with an electron in a leaf outside your window.
The electron, given a serious kick by this energy boost, starts to bounce around, a little
like a pinball. It makes its way through a tiny part of the leaf’s cell, and passes on its extra
energy to a molecule that can act as an energy currency to fuel the plant.
The trouble is, this tiny pinball machine works suspiciously well.
Classical physics suggests the excited electron should take a certain amount of time to
career around inside the photosynthetic machinery in the cell before emerging on the other
side. In reality, the electron makes the journey far more quickly.
What’s more, the excited electron barely loses any energy at all in the process.
Classical physics would predict some wastage of energy in the noisy business of being batted
around the molecular pinball machine.
The process is too fast, too smooth and too efficient. It just seems too good to be
true...'
SOURCE:
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