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David wrote: "There is a nice TED Talk, given by one of the authors, on the subject of quantum biology."Excellent - now I'm intrigued by the book. Hope to join in the read for October.
David wrote: "There is a nice TED Talk, given by one of the authors, on the subject of quantum biology."Very interesting, thank you!
I started the book today. It appears to be written in an interesting yet intelligent manner for the general reader such as myself! Good thing considering the subject is quantum biology!How DO these robins migrate using a magnetic sense, proven through tests, bio-mechanically, if so far such an organ or process cannot be physically located? Very curious mystery.
Page 74-75 was a little tough. After three readthroughs, I snapped, uh, it was a snap.....Good thing there are pictures.
I went to school in the 1960's and 1970's. I had science classes. I remember the artist-drawn pictures of atoms back then having electron particles orbiting a nucleus. I don't remember any class bringing up 'quantum' anything, except for vague explanations of light and slit experiments, despite apparently it was a known phenomena and being studied. This book is describing stuff discovered from 1976 to now, in very clear words. Best of all, it has a picture of an electron being smeared out in an orbit. I understood more clearly what the wave/particle spookiness/probability location problem is.It is a very very cool book.
I'm enjoying this book a lot. I'm a biologist and revisiting all these molecules and biological processes from a "quantum mechanics" point of view is being just an amazing experience!Many of the cases explained in the book were "science mysteries" when I was in college, so for me it's being a really enriching read.
The plant chlorophyl process of light to sugars was an eye-opener!
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!?! OMG! Entangled electrons, singlet spin or triplet spin states, superpositions, magnetic fields upsetting balance probabilities, free radicals - toss the chemical dice...: O
*screaming wildly* (on page 186)
Ok. Ok. Thankfully, I passed Statistics in college....
Voltage gates and sodium ion short circuits - first time I ever read about how electric current actually flows in nerves! (on page 250)
I finished! I know my brain is a little bigger now....
I just started, and I enjoyed the first chapter.
Well I am a little behind ... but you all have talked me into it ... I'm going to read this book!!
