Alright I can grasp photosynthesis and kinda get general relativity but quantum mechanics pushes me as it did Eisenstein. Yet plants understand it and been using quantum mechanics for millions of years and with out this innovation we would have never evolved past the amoeba
When It Comes to Photosynthesis, Plants Perform Quantum Computation
When It Comes to Photosynthesis, Plants Perform Quantum Computation: Scientific American
Plants soak up some of the 1017 joules of solar energy that bathe Earth each second, harvesting as much as 95 percent of it from the light they absorb. The transformation of sunlight into carbohydrates takes place in one million billionths of a second, preventing much of that energy from dissipating as heat. But exactly how plants manage this nearly instantaneous trick has remained elusive
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Almost no energy is lost in between. That’s because it exists in multiple places at once, and always finds the shortest path.
The analogy I like is if you have three ways of driving home through rush hour traffic. On any given day, you take only one. You don’t know if the other routes would be quicker or slower. But in quantum mechanics, you can take all three of these routes simultaneously. You don’t specify where you are until you arrive, so you always choose the quickest route,” said Greg Scholes, a University of Toronto biophysicist.
When It Comes to Photosynthesis, Plants Perform Quantum Computation
When It Comes to Photosynthesis, Plants Perform Quantum Computation: Scientific American
Plants soak up some of the 1017 joules of solar energy that bathe Earth each second, harvesting as much as 95 percent of it from the light they absorb. The transformation of sunlight into carbohydrates takes place in one million billionths of a second, preventing much of that energy from dissipating as heat. But exactly how plants manage this nearly instantaneous trick has remained elusive
more
Everywhere in a Flash: The Quantum Physics of Photosynthesis | Wired Science | Wired.com
Almost no energy is lost in between. That’s because it exists in multiple places at once, and always finds the shortest path.
The analogy I like is if you have three ways of driving home through rush hour traffic. On any given day, you take only one. You don’t know if the other routes would be quicker or slower. But in quantum mechanics, you can take all three of these routes simultaneously. You don’t specify where you are until you arrive, so you always choose the quickest route,” said Greg Scholes, a University of Toronto biophysicist.
