Month: September 2022

SILO THINKING. "Before the twentieth century, biology and physics rarely crossed paths. Biological systems were often seen as too complex to be penetrable with mathematical methods." https://lnkd.in/eRUdQZj View in LinkedIn

PARALLEL UNIVERSES. "Until now, no one has imagined that the natural world has anything to teach us about the quantum world." https://lnkd.in/eDJed9B View in LinkedIn

ALL CHEMISTRY IS QUANTUM. "This progress leads naturally to the question: can quantum mechanics play a role in biology? In many ways it is clear that it already does. Every chemical process relies on quantum mechanics." https://lnkd.in/eRUdQZj View in LinkedIn

ISSUE OF SCALE. "However, in many ways quantum mechanics is still a concept alien to biology, especially on a scale that can have a physiological impact." https://lnkd.in/eRUdQZj View in LinkedIn

FOUR IDEAS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. "(1) all entities within the universe (e.g. a single particle, a human or even a galaxy) can only be properly described with the aid of a quantum ‘wave function’. (2) that we have a tool called the Schrödinger equation, which allows us to evolve these wave functions in time." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

FOUR IDEAS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. "(3) that many key physical quantities, including energy and angular momentum, come in discrete units known as quanta; (4) that at the instant of observation (or measurement), an entity yields a certain result (the wave function is said to ‘collapse’)." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

IMPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC UNIVERSE. "(a) that matter and energy behave in either wave-like or particle-like fashions depending on the type of observation;" https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

IMPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC UNIVERSE. "(b) that some properties of an entity are not knowable simultaneously with arbitrary accuracy – most famously the position and momentum of a particle;" https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

IMPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC UNIVERSE. "(c) objects can be in more than one state (e.g. location or energy) simultaneously – termed quantum superposition – which is eliminated when the system is measured." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

DECOHERENCE. "A loss of quantum superposition (decoherence) occurs when a system interacts with its environment in a thermodynamically irreversible way. This is equivalent to loss of information from the system to the environment." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn