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The article says, “Importantly, this is evidence of quantum physics directly affecting a biochemical reaction in a cell – something we've long hypothesized but
by leephillips 5y ago
The article says,
“Importantly, this is evidence of quantum physics directly affecting a biochemical reaction in a cell – something we've long hypothesized but haven't seen in action before.”
But there is an entire field called quantum biology:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0640 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.064...
- ceejayoz 5y agoThere's a whole field of study in dark matter, something we've not directly observed yet. That article doesn't seem to contradict the assertion; it says things like: > As we investigate biological systems on nanoscales and larger, we find that there exist processes in biological organisms, detailed in this article, for which it is currently thought that a quantum mechanical description is necessary to fully characterize the behaviour of the relevant subsystem. This would be proof of one of those hypothesized processes.
- leephillips 5y agoQuantum phenomena in photosynthesis have been observed for some time now: https://www.pnas.org/content/108/52/20908.short https://www.pnas.org/content/108/52/20908.short https://www.osti.gov/biblio/914472 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/914472
- jnwatson 5y agoA great example (and AFAIK, the first quantum biological reaction identified) is photosynthesis [1]. Quantum coherence is part of the energy transfer mechanism of photosynthesis. 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05678 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05678