New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves http://phys.org/news/2013-01-approach-nanoparticle-alloys-focused-electromag netic.html#nwlt
Since heat is what causes decoherence once you get above BEC transition temp, this may be a way to create localized regions which, once cooled to support coherence, will maintain that coherence for long periods allowing all kinds of new physical processes which today can only be done at supercold temps... -Mark Iverson -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Dyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Quantum coherence in bacteria Fifteen years ago I visited someone at Daresbury in the UK to talk about coherent vibrations in living organisms. One of the things that he was working on was the light harvesting complexes in bacteria, and he said at the time that he felt that that was where we were most likely to find quantum coherence in biological systems. Looks like he was right. Nigel On 11/01/2013 19:10, [email protected] wrote: > A recent posting on 'http://physicsworld.com' revisits a topic > - quantum coherence in "messy", warm, environmentally coupled systems > - which until several years ago was dismissed as very impossible > --- until "decoherence-protected subspaces" were discovered. > > See: "Proteins boost quantum coherence in bacteria" > http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/jan/11/proteins-boost-qu > antum-coherence-in-bacteria > > EXCERPT: > [[Until recently, living systems were thought to be "too wet and warm" > to rely on delicate quantum properties such as entanglement and coherence. > The problem is that these properties decay rapidly via random > interactions with things in the outside world, such as vibrating > molecules. However, over the past decade physicists have begun to > suspect that quantum properties play important roles in biochemical > processes - including photosynthesis.]] > > Nearly twenty years ago, I had a quasi-friendly disagreement with a > well known physicist on a local talk radio show who resolutely > maintained that quantum coherence could not possibly play any role in > the brain (while he was belittling Roger Penrose's writings), or any > biological system > - and that it was nonsensical "new age" pseudo-science. > > The enforcers of science orthodoxy can occasionally be very wrong. > > -- Lou Pagnucco > > >
