From Michael Brooks at New Scientist (03 October, 2011), we learn about “Quantum life: The weirdness inside us”:
We all run on adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, a chemical made in cells’ mitochondria by moving electrons through a chain of intermediate molecules. When we attempt to calculate how speedily this happens, we hit a problem. “In nature the process is much faster than it should be,” says Vlatko Vedral, a quantum physicist at the University of Oxford.
Vedral thinks this is because it depends on the quality of “superposition” which allows the sort of quantum-mechanical wave that describes electrons to be in two places at once. He reckons quantum omnipresence might speed the electrons’ passage through the reaction chain. “If you could show superposition is there and it’s somehow also important for the electron flow, that would be very interesting,” he says.
Vedral’s first calculations support the idea, but he says it is too early to make any claims.
Still, he’s asking some good questions.
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Thanks, Cool reference: I found this one on the flagellum:
Further notes that may be of interest:
Quantum Action confirmed in DNA by direct empirical observation;
In the preceding Quantum DNA video, ‘Gretchen’ had asked if quantum information could also somehow be measured in protein structures, besides just DNA, and it turns out that quantum information has already been confirmed to be in protein structures;
etc.. etc..
I liked this comment from the article:
And indeed the quantum computation in life, that is the little we have managed to barely catch a glimpse of yet, completely dwarfs anything man has yet achieved in his attempts at quantum computation:
Notes:
Whereas in man’s best concerted efforts thus far:
,,,LOL, engineers can just stare at the quantum computation/information processing in cells, and even though they can examine it all day long, they still haven’t come anywhere near matching it. too funny!, And even though this should drastically humble any sane man, neo-Darwinists will come along and deny (read Lie!) that any of this points to intelligent design;
further note: