Could plants depend on quantum mechanics to convert solar energy
to energy in which living organisms are able to use? In a new
study in Nature, this is exactly what they are saying… “It is
common knowledge that plants, algae and certain bacteria use
photosynthesis to convert solar energy into a form that can be
used by the organisms to live and reproduce. But what is less
well known is that the efficiency of photosynthesis might depend
in part on quantum-mechanical processes.” “On page 644 of this
issue, Collini et al.2 report evidence suggesting that a process
known as quantum coherence ‘wires’ together distant molecules in
the light-harvesting apparatus of marine cryptophyte algae. This
is the first time that this phenomenon has been observed in
photosynthetic proteins at room temperature, rather than at much
lower temperatures, bolstering the idea that quantum coherence
influences light harvesting in vivo.” Post-it notes and other
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