How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions | Jim Al-Khalili | TED Talks

How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called “spooky action at a distance” helps birds navigate, and quantum effects might explain the origin of life itself.
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He was my lecturer at my University and taught one of the first year modules. He truly is such a good teacher and inspired everyone in the class.

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This man's excitement is so contagious. I love it when a speaker gets so carried away with the subject they carry you along. Fantastic.

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[@EDUARDO12348]

For those interested, at 2:53 the simulation is showing part of a cellular membrane (yellow = hydrophilic heads and green = hydrophobic tails) surrounded by water in red. The blue ribbon-like structure embedded in the membrane is a protein.

[@moneyca4mhindustanxoxo855]

So are we really made up of atoms?

[@vivianle9901]

Monica4MHindustan xoxo Yes. Everything is made of atoms but biology just illustrates the diagram that way because if it was represented how it would actually look then it would be unrecognizable. :3 hope that helps even if I'm 4 months late

[@moresalad221]

Damn right that's a protein. Cept my book shows it symmetrical.

[@david203]

@@vivianle9901 I've seen some impressive animations showing how the components of cells work (including "walking"). I'm intrigued about a true representation being "unrecognizable". Are there any unrecognizable simulations or animations of cellular activities? Even if we use color to indicate different functions, doesn't that tend to make simulations more recognizable? Even though balls and sticks don't look like overlapping electron orbitals, what's wrong with using them? Balls and sticks are successful in helping to find new drugs, among other applications.

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[@HanadiH]

I love biology. physics does my head in... connecting the quantum world to the molecular world is so hard to imagine.

[@leonardowynnwidodo9704]

I wonder if you can apply quantum mechanics to conservation biology

[@ericfritz6940]

I recommend reading this guy's book, Life on the Edge. It goes into depth in quantum biology.

[@TheRABIDdude]

"Life on the Edge" sounds more like a masturbation manual.

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@@TheRABIDdude hahaha

[@boli4203]

I started reading it last week, found this vid by accident today...

[@guterflex7967]

Could you give a rough outline of the topics covered in this book?

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I saw this comment some time back, immediately bought the book from kindle store and started reading it. Thanks so much for the recommendation. Loved it.

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

He speaks so well!

[@rosannadesole9092]

Incredibly interesting lesson. This scientist is my favorite for how he manages to explain quantum mechanics in a simple way. I am convinced that through the research of these scientists they will discover how to defeat the various types of cancer that affect millions of people in the world. Many thanks to those who translate the TED meetings into Italian, so that many people who do not know the English language can follow the various topics that are discussed on the TED stage.🙏👏👏👏❣️

[@user-oz9mp3fe6t]

Read the book "Super Immunity" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., it has so many answers on why we develop cancer and how to change our nutrition for developing Super Immunity!!! For example, antibiotics lead to cancer. I am also fascinated by quantum physics but nutrition is so crucial too!! Please read that book, it's amazing!!

[@andrewkiminhwan]

that wonderful pink shirt kept me awake!

[@macbitz]

Fascinating stuff. As soon as I think I'm starting to understand it, I realise I don't!

[@greggrobinson5116]

There's a very good reason why none of us understand quantum, and that has to do with what we mean by "understand." In most of science, "understanding" means we can relate a scientific principle to the macro items we know in the classical, macro world. So atoms act like little billiard balls and electrons are either waves or particles. But we're not familiar with things that act like both waves and particles in the macro world, and so we can't "understand" them; we can't "model" them. We have to rely on math. So the confusion about quantum turns out to be a problem in epistemology, not in nature.

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@@greggrobinson5116 that's brilliant

[@jackdan6246]

Ah yes, quantum mechanics in it's true nature

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[@onewomanslife]

"Interdisciplinary"- that MUST be the way forward! Life can be magical. "Multiple pathways at once"-sounds like the way we think. CS Lewis said something to the effect that the human brain only comprehends a tea cup of the ocean and believes it knows the ocean.

[@Destro7000]

Is the microphone perhaps rubbing on his stubble because it is too close? But apart from that, yey for seeing Jim AK on TED.

[@eytanron8947]

6:49 the credit for the "double helix theory of the DNA", quantum leaped from Rosalind Franklin's hands.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

They used the double snake symbol in pharmacy way before Watson and Crikc, somebody knew before...

[@Brian-vk1hm]

@@bengrizzlyadams6187 Aliens.

[@Declan_Lyons]

It no more came from Rosalind Franklin's hands than it did from Maurice Wilkins'. Both Wilkins' and Franklin's x-ray photo's were acknowledged in Watson and Crick's paper. Their papers we're completed ahead of Watson and Crick's but published a week later so they could be peer reviewed and Linus Pauling wouldn't be able to use them for his work in identifying the structure of DNA. Once all three papers were published, a party/event was held in Cambridge acknowledging all four scientists, who were all incredibly accomplished. If you feel Franklin's work needs to be recognised on par with W&C's, then you need to also recognise Wilkins, who originally had the idea of using x-ray crystallography to photograph DNA. On a side note, Wilkins had a postgrad who was taking photos for him named Raymond Gosling. Gosling was transferred to Franklin without his knowledge. It's believed he thought he was showing W&C photos taken under his instruction, not Franklin's. All work into the study of DNA was declared open to other Cambridge researchers but the mix-up meant Franklin was never paid the professional courtesy of being asked beforehand. This is where the outrage stems from, but it wasn't such an outrage to Franklin who remained close friends with Crick and his wife, Odile, until her untimely death. The situation was exacerbated by Watson's autobiography. He and Franklin didn't get along and he repeatedly referred to her as "Rosie" in his book. People intent on being offended, however, overlook the fact that he acknowledged her as an outstanding scientist, also.

[@robertcoyle1532]

Right on! If it was not for her the "boys" would have gone nowhere.

[@unicorn111]

@Bob A she didn't take it for them. I think she presented her work at a seminar that w attended and didn't remember data properly and built the structure as 3 stranded. Frankline told him it was wrong. Then Wilkins showed them her research which was crucial in their discovery. She was also simultaneously close to figuring out the structure.

[@BULLAKI]

We've interviewed Jim before the virus thing. Amazing speaker.

[@MadderMel]

Jim makes science really exciting ! When I was growing up in the 1980's science class was like watching paint dry !

[@TheAhmadiMuslimGirl]

Dr. Khalili truly inspires me in so many ways...He has remarkably, once again, conquered such a difficult subject in such simple words!

[@rubini46]

Brilliant, we're loving Jim. 💕

[@stevenblack1713]

I know that most likely Jimal-khalili will not ever read this post so if any of his friends or family does please let him know I play his documentary that are on KZbin in my work van on the way to work on the way home and in my earphones while I work naturally I listen to other shows as well but by far I enjoy the way he explains universe so well that I believe i have a basic uderstanding of the wonders of physics and our place in this strange universe we call home I don't know if you realize how many people lives you affect in such a positive way I know this is a worded thank you but this is the comment section of KZbin where negative comments out number the positive ones by a considerable amount but I hope that this message some how reaches you Because I want you to know that there's lots of people all over the world that love the way you explain physics and the strangeness of the universe that we all call home and of course i would like to thank the people who take there time to post videos like yours that brings So much joy to lots of people thanks Stephen Blackwell

[@shamirgeorge]

Al-Khalili was born in Baghdad in 1962. His father was an Air Force engineer, and his mother was an English Librarian. Al-Khalili settled permanently in the UK in 1979.[2] After completing his A-levels in 1982, he studied physics at the University of Surrey and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1986. He stayed on at Surrey to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nuclear reaction theory, which he obtained in 1989, rather than accepting a job offer from the National Physical Laboratory.[9]

[@warrenny]

Sounds like we are creating a laundry list of describables for Al-Khalili. Okay, here are some more: He is apparently bald or balding.[4] He sometimes laughs. He often shows up to speak at quantum mechanic lectures.

[@dallanledford6364]

So amazing to find out there's more steps down the ladder of biology's emergent complexity.

[@celestehills]

FASCINATING. Just brilliant.

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Super interesting Talk!

[@prof.thiagolopes637]

this is really exciting! I wish I am alive to see the findings of quantum biology.

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Excellent flawless beautiful presentation!

[@DesiranKehendak]

14:50 I can see the excitement here. And it's contagious! Jim is one of my favorite scientist alive today!

[@TheOscarlilly]

This guy seems so put together and cool. Also so interesting.

[@charlotteraven1547]

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[@flensdude]

"If there is one thing that I am certain about quantum physics then it is that it is 2Spooky4Me." - Albert Einstein

[@TheClassicWorld]

It's almost like he didn't say that.

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[@squamish4244]

Einstein was not DTF with quantum physicists.

[@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY]

Guys its a joke. Relax.

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When did einstein came to use whatsapp?

[@johnchaffey2766]

Wonderfully lucid and engaging talk. Exciting.

[@Tinymaniac1]

I'm 15 and this stuff inspires me to do something amazing😂

[@Tinymaniac1]

+Kowalski I don't have any today :P

[@zercet]

Actually school is only there to give you answers to questions you don't actually care about on the moment. As an engineer, I can tell you that most of the things you're gonna remember about science as an adult, are the researchs you've made on your free time wondering childhish questions like: -Why is the sky blue and red in the evening? -Why some things are cool and some others hot? -What is a colour? -How does a plane fly? -Why doesn't the moon crash on Earth? ... Don't count too much on school and keep being curious ! :p

[@Tinymaniac1]

My teachers keep telling me to let my imagination run wild but not too wild but forget them xD

[@Tinymaniac1]

And one question: How is engineering? no one really explains the different jobs and I figured it would be better to ask someone in that field.

[@zercet]

+Gulled Bulhan Curiosity and rigor are keys to a unlimited knowledge ! :p

[@gehteuchnichtsan7911]

Biology was always my best subject in school because it's so logical. But there were always some unexplained things like how enzymes function. In the last few years I really studied quantum mechanics on my own. I saw his documentary about quantum biology and I have to say I would love to study this subject. I think it has so much potential to understand life and use the knowledge. Nature is incredible efficient and our technology has so much to improve.

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I love it when people truely love what they're doing ! And actually recently i found my own passion it an awsome feeling!

[@Le_Lys_Eclectique]

Amazing! And fascinating!!!

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Great guy.

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Science is so dope

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Oops that was an accident

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The key to all answers and questions that everybody over looks and or over thinks is.. KEEP IT BASIC

[@JoanJoelCaceresRamirez]

This video captivated me so much that now I want to look for projects to work in some related topics about it.

[@Sebanoe]

Lets be honest Quantum physics will eventual explain everything, millenia from now it will become a prerequisite for study of all sciences.

[@christiansinger2497]

except for math

[@Twitchi]

+Sebanoe lets be honest Quantum physics will be proved wrong like everything else, millennia from now it'll be a prerequisite only as a stepping stone to our latest and also probably wrong explanation

[@Pidrittel]

+Twitchi Because "Quantum Physics" is not a special Theory and ALL modern theories (QFT, QCT, Standard Model, Loop-Quantum-Gravity etc.) are QUANTUM theories - you are wrong. Maybe the "Theory of everything" will be a Quantum theory, too - if found.

[@Twitchi]

ThePidrittel I can see why you have that opinion.. but come on.. every time we have come up with new explanations for how things work we have been CERTAIN that its the right one.. and then it wasn't.. no matter how sure we were, how many theories were built upon it, a game changing Idea has come along and shown us the "other way" of looking at the same facts

[@SymEof]

+ThePidrittel It's true that most modern theories are Quantum, but not all of them. I agree that it makes sense to reduce matter and energy to a discrete 'quantum', which is just the new "atom" (in its original sense) - so this might be the right approach, even in the long run. But I would disagree that Quantum Physics isn't a special theory, though. No Quantum theory can account for gravity in the singular cases - i.e. Quantum effects in high gravitational fields. Therefore Quantum mechanics only accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces.

[@jakehill9938]

This man is a true scientist. He speaks with intrigue and humility as opposed to zeal and finality.

[@pedroantoniodacruzferreira1487]

Beautiful and mind blowing stuff!!!!

[@buckanderson8194]

Brilliance isn't simply having an answer no one else does, first it's asking a question no one else ever thought to ask.

[@ShubhamSoni-kz9eu]

8:04 😍 quantum tunneling one of the most beautiful phenomenon of nature. Which are still trying get that.

[@richardtaylor3331]

Life will randomly "try" anything it can to survive. It seems perfectly reasonable that every once in a while it stumbles cross a quantum mechanics effects and utilizes it.

[@defenderoftheadverb]

+Richard Taylor True. At those scales you'd expect quantum effects to be noticed by nature.

[@WithmeVerissimusWhostoned]

+Richard Taylor randomly...haha. ok

[@richardtaylor3331]

Withme Whostoned Elaborate on why that is funny to you.

[@WithmeVerissimusWhostoned]

Richard Taylor I find it funny, because nothing's ever random. I find it even more funny in the respect to the idea your sentence is trying to express... _Life will randomly "try" anything it can to survive_... If you have a goal to survive, you have an objective. And one's mind and (if the entire existence of which we are just mirrors evolves by the same pattern, then) the mind or whatever consciousness is guiding the development of the life itself will methodically try anything from the list of possibilities that it knows of depending on how practical and effective they are in achieving the goal of survival. Or in other words, if there would be a gun in the room, but you'd never learned about what guns are, you wouldn't know what it is - a strange object at best. Or how it works, or what it does. Hence your mind wouldn't be able to operate or incorporate the gun into a possible plan of yours to address the upcoming situation. Or exchange the gun for an alien object... what you gonna do with it is going to be limited and paralyzed by your knowledge or the lack thereof. Randomness, on the absolute plane, cannot exist. And on our, individual planes, it's just an illusion, we use randomness cause it's easier than to admit our own ignorance.

[@defenderoftheadverb]

Withme Whostoned _"If you have a goal to survive, you have an objective."_ Survival is not a "goal". It is a consequence of adaptive mutation. The mutation is random and prolific. Whatever can survive does survive. Evolution is not planned. It has no targets.

[@midnightantelopes]

Terrific lecture!

[@hendalagedonsumanaratne8669]

Thank you indeed for nice explanation

[@HashemAbed]

Spectacular! I am really looking forward to know more about quantum biology and hope that it will one day explain memory, dreams, consciousness, creativity and even human soul.

[@ralphstern2845]

Our “souls” are a pure product of our biology. When the cells stop living, our consciousness/soul dies with the cells. Sorry.

[@manalfaisal9592]

@@ralphstern2845 When we die we are still atoms and quantum mechanics is at play. So we don't really disappear into nothing but exist in another form. So the soul is beyond the understanding of your limited perception.

[@ralphstern2845]

@@manalfaisal9592 you can apply your imagination as you wish. There is zero evidence of a soul existing other than in theology. It is a figment of primitive minds. Our “soul” is merely our consciousness,inseparable from the body. If we are not cremated, our organic energy can be returned to the biosphere. If we are cremated, that energy is lost. Our atoms exist, but not our consciousness. Soz.

[@AscendingApsolut]

Some of the intended likes "tunneled" into dislikes, barrier was to thin...

[@bohanxu6125]

Using the numbers of likes and dislikes, publication time, (assuming a time-linear increment of total votes) we can calculate the tunneling decay time :D

[@Zwebbbel]

ups, my like tunneled right there, sorry pal! XD XD XD

[@AmiyaSarkar]

Biochemists used to take recourse to an abstruse term called "activation energy" to circumvent the quantum mechanics stuff. Tunneling is also found in human olfaction. Very interesting narration!

[@lexikennedy7178]

too*

[@rositasultana6835]

Lexi Kennedy you took it from my lips...well keys.

[@BoggleMeBog]

By far the coolest TED talk I’ve ever seen

[@nandans2506]

This is brilliant ... I always wondered about enzymes

[@faaip0de0oaid]

Add to this the idea of consciousness being able to affect reality on a quantum level

[@freidenkercb2516]

Why do You think so?

[@anikyt7570]

To understand Biology we need Chemistry. To understand Chemistry we need Physics. Slowly Biological study moving toward that ... unraveling minuscule details. But belittling current biologist is not required for the progress of science.

[@hallnuts33]

I couldn't have agreed more! People tend to forget that with science there are different levels of analysis. That's the reason why biology isn't JUST "applied chemistry", chemistry isn't JUST "applied physics", sociology isn't JUST large-scale psychology. ETC

[@asrulismail1513]

to understand physics you need mathematics

[@asrulismail1513]

and mathematics isnt a science.

[@LightshamanaDhyana]

And to understand all of them we need consciousness. We don't need to despise any of them, all is important. So the C- word isn't a curse and we shouldn't shy away from it.

[@MichaelSaaymanWeb]

Fascinating stuff!

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[@seanmiller7889]

5:28 Dude in front row glasses is High AF!

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Yo that was me! Just got done smokin a Jeffrey

[@SariAlShammari]

Indeed there has been a paper published by MIT confirming that navigation of Robins is aided by quantum mechanics, published in late 2016 a year after this TED video.

[@guterflex7967]

Sari Al Shammari could you provide the link to this paper?

[@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY]

Very cool ideas. It will be interesting to see how they hold up over time.

[@itsneerajrandhir]

I am astonished!

[@ThinkLiveLaugh]

This is a very interesting Ted Talk, although the context is a bit hard to understand, I think the audience had a hard time as well, and his microphone may have been the reason. Basically, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics explain the behavior of sub-atomic particles. While the experiments and proof of concepts that he showed are not new at all, he is excited to reveal that they apply to Biology as well, adding Quantum Biology as a new scientific field, due to the new experiments that can be done with Quantum Computers such as D Wave. That must be very exciting for him as his field is Biology, and they now have a whole new toolbox of tools for experimentation. However, since Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics apply to sub-atomic particles, that means that they literally apply to every single science, since they are on a smaller scale than atoms, being sub-atomic, smaller even than protons, neutrons and electrons, we are now studying the smallest building blocks of all matter that we can currently measure. Just wait until they see what they can do with Quantum Chemistry ;D. They already understand some of Quantum Mathematics in Qubits hence the first Quantum Computers. So this is his explanation with proven methods, but I would have loved to see newer research that they have done recently in Biology. Like Sebanoe's comment states, Quantum Physics will eventually explain everything, and that is because it involves all matter, and it will become a prerequisite for study of all sciences once it is better understood, as science is catching up so it can finally detect and measure with instrumentation these tiny sub-atomic particles.

[@moneyca4mhindustanxoxo855]

Is it true that our cells are made up of molecules and atoms??

[@2010sourabh]

@@moneyca4mhindustanxoxo855 really r u asking that r u Indian?

[@nextMovieClip]

Just said you have something to say instead of castigating the speaker.

[@whatsupbudbud]

"That must be very exciting for him as his field is Biology" He himself said that his field is quantum mechanics and that he feels molecular biologists have it easy due to scale.

[@Ali-uz8qg]

*Science And Tech:* - As most physicist use them, there is no difference. "Quantum mechanics," "quantum physics" and "quantum theory" refer to the same thing. And the speaker us not a biologist.

[@TheDrunkardHu]

What are you trying to tell me... That I can dodge bullets?

[@kwsapphire]

+The Real Drunkard Hu No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

[@keira_churchill]

There is no spoon.

[@ductuslupus87]

+Keira Churchill That's what she said.

[@car103d]

🐈....🐈 Deja vu....

[@ChunkySalsa75]

No, that the bullet that hits you did so before it left the gun 😉

[@nabilkhamis2301]

I’m so excited to know that particular can be in two places in the same time

[@chuckbryan4817]

Fantastic presentation; very interesting.

[@ParadoxPerspective]

I bet none of you knew that Mr. Clean had a degree in Quantum Physics.

[@lucifervultklan7840]

ParadoxPerspective quantum cleaning?

[@gerardorcastellanos950]

ParadoxPerspective I bet no one knew that your body odor is so bad that even mr.clean can’t extinguish it.

[@ianclarke3627]

Isn't Mr clean an accountant?

[@sidarthur8706]

this is handsome squidward

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[@Jooonathan]

I want to study this!!!!

[@ImanAliHussein]

+Jonathan Ouwens I say go for it, but I ain't paying for any mental breakdowns along the way!

[@MrBeiragua]

+Jonathan Ouwens It's worth it.

[@Jooonathan]

I don't get it *****

[@Jooonathan]

***** K lel

[@lukebradley3193]

The guy talking here wrote the most lucid book on QM for the public I have ever read: Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed. Highly recommend it. Its also an Audible, so you can listen to it.

[@k.p.3739]

I was questioning if this was possible since the age of 10 from when I first heard of quantum physics . I am so grateful that I came across this man . I wish to work in this field .

[@JDG.RealEstate]

Beautiful!!!

[@Ndo01]

To me quantum tunnelling seems very similar to physics collision glitches in a video game; you might not be able to go through a wall every time but if you keep at it, you might just slip through. It's as if the universe has a refresh rate and if you go faster than that rate, you can ignore it's rules during the relative instant in between.

[@InqWiper]

+Id Anima But why go through the wall instead of ending up inside the wall or going back in the direction it came but from a seemingly random position along the wall?

[@Ndo01]

InqWiper I think if it's inside the wall when the refresh rate comes back up, it'll be pushed in the closest direction to exit the wall.

[@jadestewart9126]

So true!!!

[@pipsantos6278]

There are no such thing as walls in the quantum world. Atoms are mostly empty.

[@dinaray2025]

@@pipsantos6278 we think it's empty....it's not. The Answer is so

[@nightuniverse8314]

Tell me about Vanish Oxiaction

[@AnIceCrasher]

Amazing Work!

[@linktoolsgoogledeveloper7403]

Thanks you

[@edblackmoor]

Science and Islam/Elements/Atom/Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity/The secret life of chaos/Order and Disorder/The Secrets of Quantum Physics. You guys if you haven't seen this documentaries, i strongly recomend. And Thank you Jim Al-Khalili, please do more.

[@darkmatter7758]

alice in wonderland was quantum tunneling

[@Tziguene]

Omg she is both enormous and minuscule at all times.

[@ziadirida]

Cool how biology have evolved to be so organised and so amazing!

[@jessefebrina2325]

Amazing talk👌🏼

[@vexivero]

On the thumbnail he looked like the guy from Key & Peele

[@lorezyra]

Has anyone considered that electrons and phonons (etc) operate not in just 3 dimensions, but perhaps a higher order that would better explain how it could be in "two places at once?"

[@MrBeiragua]

+バートレット理路 One problem I see in this view is that in the current quantum theory, even if an electron is confined to a one dimensional path, it will exhibit tunneling effects along this one dimension, and multidimensional theories are usually built on quantum mechanics. Putting that aside, my objection is only theoretical.

[@lorezyra]

+Mosco Monster First, I'm only speculating as I have no degree in theoretical physics. It just seems to me (in my limited knowledge and 3 dimensional mind), that if something appears to go from point A to point C without transversing point B (directly bisecting points A & C), then perhaps there is another plane (dimension) for which is being traveled. Consider how a 4 dimensional "sphere" would appear to us: it would seem to grow from nothiningness to a full sphere and then disappear again. Yet the size & shape of the 4 dimensions would remain the same. I am just trying to imagine what a phonon's travel look like if it were traveling on a surface-point of an N-dimensional sphere (where N>3).

[@MrBeiragua]

+バートレット理路 This idea makes sense. I just pointed some problems I have with it, but as I said, they're mainly theoretical. One little detail about quantum tunneling, is that the particle going from A to C through a barrier in B does passes through the barrier (according to the current well stablished theory). When physicists say "dissapears and reapears in the other side", they just oversimplifying for teaching reasons. :)

[@lorezyra]

+Mosco Monster That sounds more like energy/wave propagation. Does the electron actually penetrate the barrier? Or, does it hit the barrier and another electron absorb the momentum and carry forward?

[@MrBeiragua]

バートレット理路 I think it really penetrates the barrier, as you said, in a wavelike way. What the equations seem to imply is that the barrier isn't as solid in quantum mechanics as it is in our macroscopic world, since there is a non zero probability of finding the electron inside the barrier. Only an infinite energy barrier blocks the electron entirely. In real barriers, maybe this transfer of momentum occurs, but in the simplified model of one electron and a barrier on its way, it seems he just pass through it sometimes.

[@epicmomento3934]

I read the book he has written together with Johnjoe McFadden about Quantumbiology. It is really fascinating and I love that to every idea, concept or vision they write to wich degree it is speculative and how much of it has been already proven experimentally. Its simply a nice idea to move forward and to ask some questions.

[@olivierlegras7725]

Great!!!! The good direction for sure!!!!

[@jeromebullard6123]

Consciousness is likely the foundation of the universe, and all “matter” that “we” perceive is merely a dream. An illusion. We are all the same being experiencing itself through infinite channels- life forms.

[@SamariumHelium]

...now your just letting your imagination run wild :)

[@andresvillanueva5421]

This is what I've been thinking since 7th grade. You're me, I'm you, you're everyone and so am I.

[@charlesjanes7543]

@@andresvillanueva5421 I am the Walrus.

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@@charlesjanes7543 Lmao

[@familystuff2873]

The weirdness Is on and off Awake is on. Sleep is off. Or is it the other way around

[@draketcham]

Maeband

[@user-fc9gx9fg5e]

excellent speech

[@kikyqba1005]

gosh i loved this video ♡

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow? Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that. [he is thrown over] Bridgekeeper: Auuuuuuuugh. Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows? King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know. It was a quantum problem all along!

[@Showmaann]

I need moreeee, more science less religion!!!

[@Showmaann]

@Runescape Loots i got them both, my religion is science.

[@johnlucas7013]

Spirituality and science will one day go together and actually make sense one day

[@thewhat531]

John Lucas prove it 😉

[@Adeptus_Mechanicus]

Who cares? That's like saying: "I want less art and more science." Who told you both should be exclusive? Especially extrinsic religiosity.

[@Mihaylovich]

Science is boring and dull, it stops with quantum physics. There is a limit to logic and scientific method, and in QP there is no logic or certainty, its where you science god goes to die.

[@thedruiddiaries6378]

About time. Thank you.

[@Larrythebassman]

Best view of "quantum tunneling "that I've seen 👏👏👏👏👏👏🌵🌵🌵⚡️great job

[@yaagam]

Quantum Biology is the Basis for Human Teleportation.

[@vynnkalos]

Joseph Martin Augustin of course, how else would wizards apparate?

[@BrokenSymetry]

Josh Rigby I thought it's because god entangled all particles in the universe!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

qigong masters can walk through walls - and if you read the research on the quantum drum - the top science video a couple years back - the scientists say in principle a person can walk through walls.

[@cannella9613]

nice conference but quantum coherence in biological systems (the photosynthetic system) has now been discarded, even by its initial promoters.

[@guterflex7967]

Cannella source, please?

[@cannella9613]

@@guterflex7967 look up the paper by G.R. Fleming et al, Faraday discussions 2019.

[@guterflex7967]

Cannella „Two-dimensional electronic vibrational spectroscopy and ultrafast excitonic and vibronic photosynthetic energy transfer“ - is this the one you are refering to?

[@njm3211]

Brilliant man.

[@internationalVloq]

Nice , thank you Jim

[@boutchie06]

In other words, there’s more than meets the eye? Could it be possible there really might be an invisible man in the sky?

[@TheFossie12]

Well, critical modern science is forcing that concept into a corner and refusing to allow it to escape unless it divulges something. Often another paradox, thus creating even more questions. Curiouser and curiouser as Alice would say. Is it some sort of cosmic prank? Ancient cultures who came from even more dusty antiquity, had well established rituals to communicate with the unseen sky man via the ghost in the machine. There’s an excellent book first published circa 1970 titled (I think) ‘Secret Science behind the Iron Curtain’. Apparently, in between major wars the Russians had commissioned a team of Astralnaughts to journey out of the body and spy on American military secrets whilst remaining undetected. It required specific training. The book also contained a lot of esoteric research, scientific experiments and related historical data. Definitely not boring! Russians are pragmatic people but quite uninhibited- and if it’s there to steal, they’ll steal it. Anyway, provocative topic ...😉 thxxx

[@thinkislamcheckmychannel]

Of course not. No matter what the evidence says the materialist says 'Of course not' Atheistic presuppositionalism

[@widukind3322]

...in lucide dreaming I'm also tunneling through walls :) Muhahaha

[@AlreadyLeo]

جميلة جدا هذا الاستاذ يعطيني الحافز للموصلة بالفيزياء

[@aNcnbjkEJX]

I’m studying synthesis of compounds binding to protein ,but I don’t know lots of things about quantum world. It was fascinating speech.

[@hewadsaad1378]

A proton can disappear from one place an re-appear to another place. Question:- Does it take time or not?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

reverse time, from the future - precognition. For example virtual photons have been "captured' and harnessed - you just have to go faster than the linear operator of time-frequency uncertainty or Fourier Uncertainty. So the secret is nonlinear and also noncommutative that also includes relativity. De Broglie figured this out when he realized there has to be a pilot wave from the future that guides particles and this is what causes all the quantum non-local effects. When time is zero there is infinite frequency as quantum non-locality but since time is noncommutative to frequency there is eternal motion as complementary opposites based on the hidden momentum of light. So light has relativistic mass that is actually noncommtuative spacetime as the ether or negentropic, reverse time energy. This is actually a phase wave - or the 5th dimension as noncommutative phase.

[@cmw12]

Yeah that ^. Simple. It's unclear if void... actually knows what he's talking about and is struggling with his English, or has no clue. Some of the phrases make sense. Helpful it is not.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

You can read my blog for lots of research on this topic - ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com

[@msandiip3033]

it does not really disappear, as he said its tye quantum entanglement. So there are two particles tied together and if you measure one particle at a certain location you get to know the position of other at the same time. Its dope actually😉😉

[@gregorthemanlyfish]

Source is being discovered.

[@dinaray2025]

We'll know how. Never why.

[@Shaunt1]

Awesome. I just saw this guy on a science documentary.

[@jamesstuartbrice420]

I really like his talks. I almost feel I understand when I watch him explain physics. But of course I really do not and never will. But I would watch any new talks he gives.

[@Blu3W4r10Ck]

I don't think I've ever seen someone so skillfully say absolutely nothing for so long whilst talking...

[@kevintucker3354]

"The kingdom of heaven is within you and all around you." These are the words attributed to Christ who seemed to understand the quantum connection of mankind's consciousness to the universe he lives in.

[@fadihermiz9269]

The last couple of words about how life might be driven by the illusive quantum tricks were quite thrilling to me ...

[@carbon5475]

Im glad you guys are getting it ;)

[@juliaeve]

I tried to understand what he was going on about but he lost me at some parts lol. Remember your audience!!

[@giljav]

Julia Chernov lol, you need to improve your understanding