Plants have Teh Quantum Madjicque!

[Telarus]

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/16/1453256/Quantum-Entanglement-and-Photosynthesis

medcalf writes: "Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have experimentally shown that plants use quantum entanglement in photosynthesis. Researcher Mohan Sarovar said, 'The lessons we're learning about the quantum aspects of light harvesting in natural systems can be applied to the design of artificial photosynthetic systems that are even better. The organic structures in light harvesting complexes and their synthetic mimics could also serve as useful components of quantum computers or other quantum-enhanced devices, such as wires for the transfer of information.' According to the article, 'What may prove to be this study's most significant revelation is that contrary to the popular scientific notion that entanglement is a fragile and exotic property, difficult to engineer and maintain, the Berkeley researchers have demonstrated that entanglement can exist and persist in the chaotic chemical complexity of a biological system.'"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510151356.htm


Now, I'm not going to spin this into some "HOLYSHIT, WE MUST HAS IT, TOO!", but Sustained Entanglement in Living Tissue?.....that's pretty cool, right there.

[Kai]

Hm. Well, it makes sense that transfer of energy from chlorophyl and other photosynthetic pigments to the electrons being passed along would include something like quantum entanglement, given the speeds at which this happens.

I wonder if the same thing is true of the cytochrome oxidase chain in mitochondria.

[Reginald Ret]

Could be.