From 'New Scientist':
Despite quantum mechanics being arguably the most powerful and successful theory in all of science, biologists have thus managed not to have to deal with this strange description of the subatomic world.
However, there is now compelling evidence that enzymes use the process known as quantum tunnelling to accelerate chemical reactions. And over the past few years it has emerged that plants use quantum coherence – sending lumps of energy in many directions at once – to calculate the most efficient route for sunlight to get to their photosynthetic cells.
More intriguingly, it appears that some animals might use quantum entanglement – what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance' – to 'see' the Earth's magnetic field for navigation.
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Apart from the purely scientific aspects opened up by this field of research, one wonders whether 'quantum modelling' might be used in the consideration of the 'multiple states of being' as proposed by Rene Guénon.
Despite quantum mechanics being arguably the most powerful and successful theory in all of science, biologists have thus managed not to have to deal with this strange description of the subatomic world.
However, there is now compelling evidence that enzymes use the process known as quantum tunnelling to accelerate chemical reactions. And over the past few years it has emerged that plants use quantum coherence – sending lumps of energy in many directions at once – to calculate the most efficient route for sunlight to get to their photosynthetic cells.
More intriguingly, it appears that some animals might use quantum entanglement – what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance' – to 'see' the Earth's magnetic field for navigation.
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Apart from the purely scientific aspects opened up by this field of research, one wonders whether 'quantum modelling' might be used in the consideration of the 'multiple states of being' as proposed by Rene Guénon.
