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Special proteins called light-harvesting complexes are used in photosynthesis to capture sunlight and funnel its energy to nature's solar cells - other proteins known as reaction centres. Scholes and his colleagues isolated light-harvesting complexes from two different species of marine algae and studied their function under natural temperature conditions using a sophisticated laser experiment known as two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy.
"This and other recent discoveries have captured the attention of researchers for several reasons," says Scholes. "First, it means that quantum mechanical probability laws can prevail over the classical laws of kinetics in this complex biological system, even at normal temperatures. The energy can thereby flow efficiently by-counter intuitively-traversing several alternative paths through the antenna proteins simultaneously. It also raises some other potentially fascinating questions, such as, have these organisms developed quantum-mechanical strategies for light-harvesting to gain an evolutionary advantage? It suggests that algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans," says Scholes.
http://machineslikeus.com/news/quantum-mechanics-work-photosynthesisSpecial proteins called light-harvesting complexes are used in photosynthesis to... more
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In less than one billionth of a second, plants from algae to redwoods transform 95 percent of the sunlight that falls on them—1017 joules per second bathe the planet—into energy stored chemically as carbohydrates. The quantum key to doing that lies in a phenomenon known to physicists as quantum coherence, according to new research published in Nature on February 4. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
Quantum coherence describes how more than one molecule interacts with the same energy from one incoming photon at the same time. In essence, rather than the energy from a particular photon choosing one route to pass through the photosynthetic system, it travels through multiple channels simultaneously, allowing it to pick the quickest route. "The energy of the absorbed light is finding more than one pathway to move along at any one time," explains physical chemist Greg Scholes of the University of Toronto, leader of the research group that highlighted the effect. "We can't pinpoint the energy of that light. It's shared in a very special way."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shining-a-light-on-plants-quantum-secretIn less than one billionth of a second, plants from algae to redwoods transform 95... more
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Chaos is everywhere in the natural world, present in the coiling of smoke rings, the fronds of ferns, and the beating of our hearts. But at the level of quantum physics, chaos as we now define it is unquantifiable. How can we reconcile the quantum and the classical?
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_question_of_quantum_chaos/Chaos is everywhere in the natural world, present in the coiling of smoke rings, the... more
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Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the "many-worlds" interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the 'multiverse'). A new scientific theory - called biocentrism - refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling - the 'Who am I?'- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn't go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?
Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen. Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, it's still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection.
According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air - if you take everything away, what's left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You can't see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.
Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, "Now Besso" (an old friend) "has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Immortality doesn't mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.htmlMany of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We... more
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Quantum processing units are fundamentally different in a number of ways. First, where a regular bit can be only 1 or 0, a quantum bit (or qubit) only assumes a value of 1 or 0 when it is observed. Additionally, Quantum computers aren’t bound by Boolean operators like ‘and, ‘or’ and ‘not’...Quantum processing units are fundamentally different in a number of ways. First, where... more
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past few decades, the idea that our universe could be one of many alternate universes within a giant multiverse has grown from a sci-fi fantasy into a legitimate theoretical possibility. Several theories of physics and astronomy have hypothesized the existence of a multiverse made of many parallel universes. One obvious question that arises, then, is exactly how many of these parallel universes might there be.
In a new study, Stanford physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have calculated the number of all possible universes, coming up with an answer of 10^10^16. If that number sounds large, the scientists explain that it would have been even more humongous, except that we observers are limited in our ability to distinguish more universes; otherwise, there could be as many as 10^10^10^7 universes.
To work these numbers out, Linde and Vanchurin looked back to the time shortly after the Big Bang, which they view as a quantum process that generated lots of quantum fluctuations. Then during the period of inflation, the universe grew rapidly and these quantum fluctuations were "frozen" into classical perturbations in distinct regions. Today, each of these regions could be a different universe, having its own distinct laws of low energy physics.(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past few decades, the idea that our universe could be one of... more
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any thoughts?
if no... i'll just travel to the fifth dimension in which you did have thoughts and talk about it there.any thoughts?
if no... i'll just travel to the fifth dimension in which you... more
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Rethinking Einstein:
View the slideshow at the link.
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Read this, it is brilliant.
"Biodynamics has been considered by some as the first modern ecological farming system. The approach is similar to organic but with the unicity of the use of fermented herbal and mineral preparations as compost and astronomical planting calendar based on the Rudolf Steiner philosophy.
Back in early 1924, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, who later became one of the early leaders in biodynamic agriculture, was anxious to find ways to build bridges between active participation and the carrying out of life purposes without being derailed by personal ambition, illusions and petty jealousies. These were the negative qualities his mentor, Rudolf Steiner, had named as the main inner hindrances."
This is the passage I love the most:
"On a train from Stuttgart, Germany to Dornach, Switzerland he asked Steiner, 'How can it happen that the spiritual impulse, and especially the inner schooling, for which you are constantly providing stimulus and guidance, bear so little fruit? Why do the people concerned give so little evidence of spiritual experience, in spite of all their efforts? Why, worst of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these impulses, so weak?'
Steiner’s rejoinder surprised him, 'This is a problem of nutrition. Nutrition as it is today does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this.' ”
More at the link.
This philosophy encompasses farming and spiritual self actualization, both interconnected.
Mineral and herbal preparations create a change at a microscopic level but transforms the soil achieving outstanding results.
Here is the passage that says it all:
" ...a microscopic change at a point can effect large scale changes in the medium. But we are so used to the notion that a bigger shift requires a bigger hammer that it seems very strange to expect profound results from the minuscule application..."
Beautiful!
Steiner took inspiration from :
“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”
He believed there were no essential limits to human knowledge.
Join Organic:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/Read this, it is brilliant.
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How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language?... more
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Time doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t really expanding. And if you want a theory of quantum gravity, look to the man who inspired Einstein, says Julian Barbour.Time doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t really expanding. And if you want a... more
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First photons, atoms and molecules. Now physicists want to create a quantum superposition of a virus, which will allow them to perform Schrodinger's Cat experiment for real.
One of the great challenges for quantum physicists is to find quantum behaviour in macroscopic objects. There are obvious examples of quantum behaviour on a large scale, such as superconductivity and superfluidity, but physicists want more....First photons, atoms and molecules. Now physicists want to create a quantum... more
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Scientists shed light on cells inner workings by synthesizing gold. This provides the missing link between atoms and nanoparticle behavior, these multi-electrons could serve as light emitting sources in nanoscale optoelectronics and in energy transfer pairs. Higly fluorescent gold nanoclusters have been synthesized for use in sub cellular imaging.Scientists shed light on cells inner workings by synthesizing gold. This provides... more
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Wow, now how cool is that? My inner Geek is all happy!
Here's the article...
THERE is a simple rule of computing that holds true even in the weird quantum world: increase the number of units of information available and you boost computing power. Raising the number of quantum bits, or qubits, carries an even greater reward – every additional qubit doubles the computing power.
But raising the number of qubits has proven tricky because of the difficulty of reliably producing entangled particles. Now a team has designed a system that should fire out barrages of entangled photons with machine-gun regularity.
Existing methods of producing entangled photons tend to spew out photons more or less randomly, says Terry Rudolph at Imperial College London. "People have produced six entangled photons but they come out at times we cannot control," he says. "Ultimately that isn't going to help us build a proper quantum computer."
Rudolph and Netanel Lindner at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have designed the blueprint for a system that fires out large numbers of entangled photons on demand. They call it a "photonic machine gun" (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.113602).
At the heart of the gadget is a quantum dot - a nanoscale crystal within a semiconducting device - chilled to a low temperature. When a short, strong pulse of light hits the dot, one of the electrons inside is raised to an excited state. As it "relaxes" back to its resting energy state it throws out a photon.
"We can manipulate the electron in such a way that it is entangled with the photon," Rudolph says. Excite the same electron again and it spews out a second photon that is also entangled with the electron, and therefore with the first photon too. Repeat the process many times and a string of entangled photons emerges, ready to inject into a quantum computer.
They say that a practical version could be built within a few years. "It's only within the last year or so that the [nanofabrication] technology has made this feasible," Rudolph says.
The quantum machine-gun idea has generated a buzz among researchers. "It's a superb piece of work," says Andrew White at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. "I think this is one of the most exciting theoretical proposals I've read in five years - it will be a revolutionary advance for photonic quantum computing."
What do you think? happy to find quantum and computer in the same breath? Or not so much? lolWow, now how cool is that? My inner Geek is all happy!
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I find it endearing to witness the outpour of love from the more often apathetic public. What caused such a discharge of the 'love' energy? What is media attention or perhaps a true vibrational connection between people as a whole?
Studies in current quantum physics would suggest that this Unified Field is so interconnected that one invariably influence another. *The beat of a butterflies wings in China stirs the entire field, sending tornadoes/hurricanes* As was stated by Laura Ling, "...we could feel your love all the way in North Korea...", this holds an unparalleled assumption that WE as humans are capable of vibrational frequency distribution, especially when a large mass participates. This type of 'healing life force' is within all of us and is the main reason some would seek to manipulate the masses and direct this output.
Be vigilant with causes similar to these, for the pain and suffering of these courageous women is felt by many an unsung song daily! Remember that injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere! Free the World from the grips of the world corporations, re-align when your 'saviours' deceive or intentionally mislead as these puppet dictators were 'propped up' for situations just as these. How many more innocent people will toil fruitlessly to abolish inequality by combating the 'symptoms' of unethical geo-political practices?
Is one more what it will take for you, the final straw...or a hundred more...millions?
Project your 'vibes' for the betterment of all life at every moment of conscious awareness!
Wake up, sheeple. The time has come! Here and Now!I find it endearing to witness the outpour of love from the more often apathetic... more
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http://www.biogetica.com - This video discusses ancient wisdom from Vedic Yogic Shamanistic Christian Chi-Gung Reiki and Kaballah traditions that describes the human experience to consist of 5 bodies layers koshas or dimensions. This ancient wisdom is in line with the latest findings in quantum physics and materials science that now understand that matter exists by virtue of vibration. Chakras and Meridians exist on all these 5 bodies. Subtle mental or emotional changes bring about changes in the physical sphere. An effective and lasting method of healing must work on all layers simultaneously as lingering mental /emotional disturbances will cause physical manifestations of dis-ease to resurface.http://www.biogetica.com - This video discusses ancient wisdom from Vedic Yogic... more
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