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Quantum 'weirdness' used by plants, animals, humans (cbc.ca)
2 points by jdub on Nov 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


An awfully watered-down and simplified presentation of an extremely complicated process.

Obviously, organisms are bound by the laws of chemistry and hence physics. The fact that the action of some proteins cannot be explained without knowledge of entanglement does not mean that the organisms "use it", no more than they "use" the strong force to keep their nuclei together.


Very pop science-y, but leads the way to other interesting stuff.

The best bit about this article is the naked "whoa, this is all totally weird stuff, man!" attitude... which will eventually disappear as we are able to explain it all. :-)




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