Quantum Biology [Part 3] - How Birds (Might) Navigate With Quantum Mechanics

[@upandatom]

I think it's safe to say I got a liiiittle carried away with this video :) Have you ever gotten so wonderfully obsessed with a topic that the rest of your life falls apart for a few weeks? What was it? Doesn't have to be science related. btw yes it was totally worth it.

[@darrylcampbell4426]

Love the animations :) I get obsessed with coding a lot.

[@gregoryallen0001]

such a well-explained idea thank you ♥️ fri 13th 💀

[@x_abyss]

Oh Jade, what have you done! Now all those pseudo scientists will try to force their hocus pocus magnetic remedies up on us. And you just gave them the perfect ammunition. 😂😂😂

[@tcaDNAp]

I get obsessed with a bunch of things, but most recently BRAILLE! Everything braille.

[@equesdeventusoccasus]

This video caused several ideas to start rumbling around in my mind. Even if they are wrong, I always enjoy new ideas and determining if they could possibly hold up under analysis. So thanks, Jade.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

This was flipping incredible, I think one of your best vids. You and Patrick are both such excellent communicators of tremendously complicated concepts. 10/10 would watch again.

[@Skeithization]

I really like Jade's videos too. Yours as well btw, you're also great!

[@upandatom]

Thank you Rohin :)

[@YayComity]

I didn't understand "Thank you Rohin!" until I clicked on the Translate to English link. It revealed that it means "Thank you Rohin!" which of course makes it clearer to me, English being my only language. Note that the CEO of Google is Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Twitter is Parag Agrawal, and the CEO of Microsoft is Satya Nadella.

[@susmitislam1910]

@Medlife Crisis indeed, a flipping incredible video about the flipping incredible concept of spin flipping

[@Uncle-Mike]

Seeing your face light up when you say something is "complicated" compels me to pay attention. Higher learning may offer facts but they can hardly teach enthusiasm, which seems so essential to true learning. Thanks, Jade!

[@upandatom]

Thanks Uncle Mike!

[@DavidLindes]

Indeed. And this is one of the things that's so great about this channel... Jade, your enthusiasm is a delight to observe, and often quite contagious. In the good way. :)

[@DavidLindes]

Indeed. And this is one of the things that's so great about this channel... Jade, your enthusiasm is a delight to observe, and often quite contagious. In the good way. :)

[@benlev3375]

This is an excellent educational video combining quantum mechanics, electromagnetism and chemistry, and I feel that this is a high quality introduction to quantum biology.

[@upandatom]

Thanks Ben!

[@mattalexander7088]

I can't see how you could have made your explanations any clearer. It's like you read every additional question that popped into my head and then answered it a few seconds later in the video. Thanks a heap, what an interesting field of science!

[@objectSIX617]

Back in undergrad I studied neurobio and I focused my neruoethology term paper (2015) on magnetoreception. I became obsessed and my 20 pg paper blew up to 120 pgs, a third of the paper was focused on this proposed magnetoreception modality. I spent a month trying to understand Schulten's paper and really wasn't able to do it justice without a background in physics. I just wanted to thank you and Corporis for taking the time to visually explain the concept and doing it so well. If you are interested in magnetoreception, there are also some really cool magnetic compass sense proposed mechanisms in elasmobrach fish (sharks + rays) that use phase shifts in there electrical sense as they move their head back n' forth to distinguish magnetic cardinal directions.

[@Corporis]

This was fun Jade, thanks for being awesome to work with ☺️🐤

[@upandatom]

Thanks Pat you're the best!

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Why do I hear the European robin's voice in an Aussie accent?

[@MedlifeCrisis]

NAH MATE

[@upandatom]

Haha oh yeah whoops

[@Skeithization]

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose had this experience!

[@KhAnubis]

The robin‘s clearly been watching too much Up and Atom lately

[@christianheichel]

@@KhAnubis smart bird

[@GeorgeDolbier]

Congratulations you have made PHD level physics understandable by non PHDs! Your channel deserves more subscribers. Keep up the great work!

[@pierreabbat6157]

Another simple question with a very complicated answer: Kid: And why does the earth have a magnetic field to begin with? Father: There's a huge ball of iron in the middle of the earth. True, but far from the whole story!

[@pghparkins]

You really did a phenomenal job explaining this and somehow managed to show even more enthusiasm than usual. "Now it's time to introduce the fly into the mix" was my favorite moment, doubly so because the thought going through my head at that very moment was "this all makes perfect sense, now how does the fly tip the granite?"

[@mih1961]

I love your enthusiasm and your way of teaching. It makes it easy to learn and pay attention. :)

[@upandatom]

thank you :)

[@stephenpuryear]

Jade, this is superb! May I quote Poincare?: "A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we then say that this effect is due to chance." The effect that you are looking at reminds me of the way that sharks can detect prey using input on the order of parts per trillion or less. We cannot yet produce sensors like this ourselves but we may have them in our bodies somewhere. Awesome video!

[@upandatom]

yeah sharks are pretty cool!

[@Pangui008]

By far, one of the best videos I've seen lately! Such an interesting and complicated topic, explained so clearly

[@JeffersonWolski]

I've been checking every day for weeks in anticipation of this video. So worth it now that it's here. 😀 Sad that I can give it only one like.

[@peterjansen4826]

There it is! I have been waiting for this one.

[@logosfabula]

You have managed to put together the most enthralling curiosities and notions I have been thinking about the last years. Super.

[@warrenphilips8441]

1:44 I see nothing wrong here. Isn't this how everyone eats cake? :)

[@aaroncurtis8545]

Yay! I'm so glad you did all three videos. Thanks for your work Miss Physics, you're one of the few whose videos I watch over and over, even if I know the material. And... Second comment b maybe

[@upandatom]

I'm so glad you enjoyed all the details!

[@rashim]

She can easily be an actor. The expressions are so intricate and well-timed

[@AurelienCarnoy]

The force of cuteness is strong with this one.

[@debjyotimukherjee8275]

This video really made my day! The excitement in your eyes and smile while explaining is really beautiful.. we need more educators and story tellers like you🍻

[@DevinGaughan]

Your channel is my favorite on all of KZbin and I watch a lot of KZbin. Thank you for this amazing content! Your personality makes these videos so fun and you're amazing at making these complex concepts much more easily understandable than most other media I have consumed on similar topics are able to. Thank you again Jade!! Also thank you for introducing me to Pat's channel. Subscribed and loving his content so far too.

[@c.s.hayden3022]

The topics you choose for your videos are always intriguing. All the math philosophy and cross field emergence manages to feel solid when it’s easy to veer off into some new agey thing. The illustrations are very effective at keeping it real.

[@johncourt9580]

Hi Jade, this is such a fascinating subject, and your explanation makes for a possible solution. Quantum effects are so strange as, not of this planet, but I'm led to believe that Quantum Superposition, is what holds everything in the universe together. The fact that Cryptochrome can produce radical pairs when influenced by a magnetic field, I'm beginning to see the possibilities. I'm stopping here now, to go and have a lay down in a dark room! I enjoy your videos Jade, even if i have trouble understanding them.

[@WildlifeGuy]

This 3 part series of Quantum Biology was fascinating..I have been dealing with wildlife since 1990...I'm going to study Quantum Biology more.. thank you

[@GingerWithEnvy]

It's really fun watching a video and realising that you've already studied stuff relating to it, like seeing the Zeeman effect to distinguish hyper fine structure, loved the video!

[@svergurd3873]

Wonderful video, very well explained!! Quantum biology is extremely interesting and a fascinating new field of knowledge. Love these videos.

[@migfed]

This is a magnificent vídeo. Its so deep. It let you wondering how many beautiful things are still needed to unearth in science. The deeply connection between the organic world and the realm of quantum. This is the kind of stuff science KZbinrs and the kind of keen science oriented audience are really looking forward to. Congratulations you did it again. This is one of your classics videos along with the one you made some time ago and was about why gold shines. Thank you so much for delivering such a high quality content.

[@upandatom]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@neildudley5005]

Very interesting & well presented. The enthusiasm for the subject matter comes over really well. I still cannot get over the statement that this is PhD level & even more that I understood almost all of it in one sitting! (One sitting of all 3 videos you understand!). Very, very well done!

[@MaxDiscere]

I was looking forward to this 😍

[@Calantha42]

I can't believe your video was 20 minutes long. I was so thoroughly enjoying myself I lost of time entirely. Thanks for sharing!

[@upandatom]

Thank you so much!

[@24Masamune]

That recap was perfectly placed, I was just starting to get lost. Really enjoyed this video.

[@MrLuigiBean1]

This is an EXCELLENT video! I loved everything about it!

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

Channels like yours break down some of these high level things in such a way that I am able to grasp it. But usually I end up with even more questions 😅 it still fuels my curiosity and desire to learn.

[@booklover-hu9tw]

Wow this was really interesting!!! Not sure I understand it completely tho lol🤣 would love to know more!!! I can understand why you'd get so obsessed with it! great video!!🖤🖤

[@upandatom]

yeah it's a tough one, definitely one of the more advanced topics on the channel!

[@NourSelim0]

Most of the complicated stuff you mention (electron spins) felt very simple to me, it's just IGCSE Chemistry A Level (something you would study in the 2nd or 3rd year of highschool). Then I tried to think how would I feel if I wouldn't have taken that Chemistry course, and now I realize why that's a difficult topic and how much of a great job you did at simplifying it!

[@vanci3449]

your art compliments your explanations SO WELL your enthusiasm is contagious your editing and choices of soundtrack is on point I CAN'T EVEN -- JADE, THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING CONTENT

[@upandatom]

Thank you so much!! :D

[@harpospondlife4910]

just the right amount of detail, nicely done

[@vishivishal2010]

Awesome 👍 Thanks for throwing some light on the question I have been asking since I was a kid.

[@SoulEaterZika]

Congratulations, this is a amazing job. Thank you and Patrick for this.

[@Shearerscience1]

Crypto-chrome in birds could act in a similar way to rhodopsin. It allows rods in eyes to increase their sensitivity by powers of 10

[@frodetuvendal5293]

What a fantastic, and indulging video!

[@upandatom]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I was worried there was too much detail but it's all so fascinating...

[@dutchy3334]

Love the way you educate us en explaining divicult matter on a easy way thank to you both.

[@4Robato]

This was a very good series and I actually learned a lot. You've explained everything very well in this video even if it was a tough topic. Very good job!!

[@upandatom]

Thank you for watching I'm glad you enjoyed it and learned a lot :)

[@ahmadtajy7178]

I just can't believe how easy you make it to understand everything

[@negimemorandum3941]

Very difficult to focus on lecture when such a beautiful and expressive lady is explaining scientific topic that too quantum bio

[@Reliquancy]

Is the quantum nature of things kind of like how a guitar string can only have standing waves on it that are whole number multiples of a certain frequency? Like the electron orbitals are some 3 dimensional vibration analog of that?

[@upandatom]

yes! that analogy is often used

[@Reliquancy]

Up and Atom Oh I always hear things like discrete “packets” of energy, I wouldn’t think of anything happening on the guitar string as happening in packets, its just theres no partway between these different vibrational modes so it’s discrete or quantized... Maybe a lot more of this will make sense now that I’ve got this part! And thanks for your videos, I’ve only seen a few so far, I’m planning on binging the rest!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@Reliquancy Look up Field Medal Math PRofessor Alain Connes lecture on music theory explaining quantum algebra or noncommutative geometry. The secret is that real music is actually noncommutative nonlocal phase logic. I'd give a link but links are now often censored on youtube. thanks just search youtube for alain connes music.

[@kirankumar-ov8wk]

Awesome! Superbly Explained!! You and Quantum Rock!

[@abineshanbazhagan6703]

Currently being a PhD scholar I was recently seeing a trend of Interdisciplinary research which modern science demands. In this way ,I recently came across some disciplines like Nanotechnology, Biochemistry, genetics and so on that can be integrated into Ecology,which is where I belong. So quantum in biology had much more fascinated me since I watched it when you posted first. Now when I revisit this video this is still so fresh and excited me like the first watch effect. Guess I have to do a quantum tuning in my works haha! Thanks for this amazing video, keep working out on more like these types! Happy Sciencing 😊

[@crazyme5839]

Hey! I’d love to learn from you. I’ve just started learning Quantum Computing and would really appreciate hearing about your journey-it could help guide me. Let me know if you’re open to that!

[@abineshanbazhagan6703]

Hey​@@crazyme5839appreciate your response. I guess I'm out of track currently as in my earlier comment I had written that I'm doing my PhD ,I was but not now. I discontinued from my doctoral program due to certain personal issues. I'm however trying again with another university but this time I don't think I can go with quantum science, but just rely on ecology , evolution and taxonomy. Maybe someday in future id I get a chance that align with quantum science ,I will definitely try to pull in with ecology and evolutionary biology. To put it simple, I cannot be of a help to you regarding quantum into ecology or any history of mine into the same. Else, of this is of anything that correspond to ecology or wildlife science ,then I am happy to share or answer your questions. Thanks again! Best wishes in advance 🎉

[@fcsolis]

Awesome Ph.D. level lesson explained in an un-intimidating way. Thanks.

[@robsonfroes3792]

Excellent series! I'm fascinated as well about how biology may derive and interact with quantom phenomena! I think further research on this topic will lead us to extremelly new ideas and ways of approaching life and consciousness! Keep on the great work!!!

[@esperancaemisterio]

Fantastic video Jade! I've never had heard of such thing before! Awesome collaboration! Thanks a lot for sharing with us

[@donepearce]

Thanks Jade. Now a follow-up on hyperfine transitions to explain how Caesium beam clocks keep such good time?

[@nicolaskrinis7614]

I can only imagine the implications for life out of nowhere (abiogenesis, as in when life was allegedly created). Really, the intricacies of QM can actually, one day help us figure out how it occurred. Also, Pauli is my favourite QM theorist out of the whole Copenhagen bunch. Thank you so much for helping democratize very arcane science.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

4:49 A radicals are NOT atoms/molecules with an odd electron. Radicals rather have one or more unpaired electron. A good example is the Oxygen molecule that we breathe all the time. Our good old Oxygen molecule is actually a diradical, which means it has two unpaired electrons. So an oxygen molecule is better represented as .O-O. with two dots presenting two unpaired electrons.

[@ashishprasad3311]

This is great! But it still doesn't explain the long-term memory aspects of how birds remember at what point on earth do they head left or right and by how much. Moreover, birds navigate long distances in swarms. My hypothesis is that there is an element of collective intelligence as well that is used for navigation. Its like understanding how the navigation equipment works on an aircraft but not knowing how a pilot should interpret it and take actions. The interactions at a quantum level is no doubt intriguing. It's got me thinking about this phenomenon quite deeply now!

[@Mickeycuatropatas]

Great comment. One can be plopped in the middle of an ocean with a compass, but it will only keep you from rowing in circles and keeping a straight line (if you compensate for set & drift). Yes, the magnetic field has latitudinal angular information as well, but I am not convinced animals use this geomagnetic field as a primary reference.

[@kimaaron3507]

This is an excellent addition to the 3 part quantum biology series. But, if I may nitpick, please make sure you are using "theory" and "hypothesis" correctly. A scientific theory is a generally accepted explanation of how something functions (Theory of Gravity, Theory of Evolution), etc. What you are describing in your video here is an hypothesis.

for me, the most exciting part is that a deep knowledge of quantum physics may be embedded on plants and birds and other living creatures DNA... The DNA may be a sort of encyclopedia of all natural laws! That's the amazing and unexplored part!

[@jnrickards]

I pressed the like button, thumb up, but I was looking for the multiple thumbs up, this was awesome

[@esquilax5563]

Very cool! When I first heard you mention the topic, it sounded so implausible. But you two explained it very well. Fascinating intro to something I'd never heard of before!

[@aianyoung]

That was well worth the wait!

[@johnbonnett5746]

Another fabulous video! I do think the little robin does not need much navigation to get from Sweden to Spain. The one that impresses me is the Bar-tailed godwit which has been recorded as flying non-stop from New Zealand to northern China, a distance of about 11,000km. It is a bit bigger bird than the robin but still pretty small.

[@user-jn8ul4on5j]

Wow, thank you! This is really interesting, and you explained it very well!

[@williamsjm100]

My seven year old and I watched this video and loved it. He is explaining about radical pairs to his mum!

[@upandatom]

aww yay! he sounds so smart!

[@TheAmateurPhilosopher]

The nature is the best teacher 😍

[@wolfgangsanyer3544]

Wish I could upvote this more than once: great video

[@alexetchart]

Sooo grateful for your work and this mini series especially. was super looking forward to it and it's perfect time it coming out as I'm staying in for health reasons and it's the perfect friday night gift. Thanks from the UK via Uruguay.

[@carlosgarcia3341]

Wonderfully explained, you're great, keep up that good passion of yours.

[@prateekmourya9567]

It's common that a expert PhDn who might have several thesis always appreciates such explanation of such complex terms even if they had studied in detail

[@juanddaza3813]

Interesting video, also it has been demonstrated that birds use sunlight and starts to navigate, and this might be related to your proposed idea of the signal hitchhiking the optic nerve. Makes me wonder if this is the case of marine turtles, which also have been propose to use the magnetic field to navigate, and I understand they also have good vision. Excellent work putting this together, I did enjoyed the quantum biology series!

[@2tehnik]

Very comprehensive and well explained Good job!

[@benhall2146]

It's great to see new videos from you!

[@AniketPatil-nk1vw]

Interesting theory, does seem reasonably correct. Well explained. Each step properly set up & lead into the next. Good analogy with the granite block & the fly. Sounds like a movie series, The Granite Block & The Fly: Tipping Point. Bad joke, but couldn't help myself.

[@prashantdahiya711]

Why didn't someone like you teach me chemistry 😭, I am so happy and sad at same time, this explanation is sooo good.

[@braindeadbzh]

Watching the video also wearing a Vsauce t-shirt.

[@upandatom]

ooh twins!

[@l.i.v.laplace3732]

Dang, Third coz of Slow wifi... HEY JADE!!! LOVE YOUR VIDS & SCIENCE-Y!!!

[@spaceandearthyoutubechanne7143]

Me too

[@upandatom]

Thank youuuu :)

[@MisterSlivs]

I love your channel such original topics and videos!!

[@jamessotherden5909]

Some of it went over my head, But I did understand some of it. Well done.

[@upandatom]

it's phd level stuff!

[@alejandronasifsalum8201]

Great explanation for a tough subject! Love your videos.

[@artyswank6060]

nice video 👌 finally someone answered my question that why weren't creating O2 by photosynthesis, and my other questions have been raised in my mind. I love the way how in quantum world one particle can take more than one way to get to destination and how does it disappears (probability of finding=0) from other paths when it's destination is found. most interesting is that photosynthesis is 100% efficient, plants might be laughing on us when we use energy to create O2 and H2 from water. and they get energy doing the same just from energy from a proton 🙄🙄

[@blacked2987]

magnetic field is weak but Particles it carries are strong ehh ⚡⚡

[@TheJohnblyth]

I felt sure quantum tunnelling would be central part of the solution, so this was a wonderful new perspective for me. Great video, thanks! (Unless tunnelling is indeed the extra piece of the puzzle?-Dunno.)

[@upandatom]

Watch part 2 for quantum tunneling!

[@tamaldas2792]

Thank you for all the amazing content. ❤️ This one simply blew my mind. 🤯

[@vincenzodevito6999]

Jake I love all your videos. I am so happy to have found them. Your as smart as you are beautiful!! Love you!!

[@denisl2167]

Very cool information, Jade!

[@allhumansarejusthuman.5776]

Been Look in forward to it!! Yay!

[@KuyVonBraun]

Wow, a meaty subject. This video deserves more likes!

[@faisalpaalijo7127]

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[@RedR1ghtHand]

Yes! I really love this channel. Keep up the great work

[@taniadeb5245]

Loved this explanation❤️❤️

[@MrEmrys24]

Previous videos I watched from PBS Space Time and Science Asylum helped me understand this 😁

[@dr.anupamghosh4303]

Very good and nice elaboration. Thank you

[@toothpastehombre]

Wow, that biologist got my magnetic chemistry going off

[@shashwatparth3672]

You are a good teacher.

[@DaBlondDude]

Its thanks to channels like these that I actually understood enough of that to follow it. Thanks to you both. It would seem incomplete to suggest that birds can't navigate during the day, I admit. On that note, how does one actually run an experiment on a bird to detect/measure this?

[@Darkanight]

I absolutely love your channel and the way you illustrate facts. Hard things become so easy to understand. thanks for all the interesting stuff and keep it coming. ^_^

[@upandatom]

Thank you :)

[@brothernobody1775]

chemical compasses composed of cyrpto-chrome clusters create quantum questions concerning control. However, it is very interesting to think they can "see" the magnetosphere in a way.

[@morkub607]

i really liked that superposition animation

[@saikumarkrithivasan136]

@10:08, are hyperfine interactions reason for radical pair to exist in superposition. Is it because of hyperfine interactions?, I felt its natural for a quantumsystem to be in superposition even when it doesn't interact with nucleus. . If that's the case, then can we say nuclear interactions are similar to noise and these radical pair becomes a open quantum system?.. Thanks a kot for the video, very well explained and interesting.

[@yimoawanardo]

I'm at 10:52. Still not all the way through. And already I can say that this is so damn well explained

[@upandatom]

aww thank you!