Can living cells maintain fragile quantum states?
Quanta Magazine describes chemist Gregory Scholes’s skepticism that cells can maintain such states in a warm, wet environment. He proposes that life might imitate quantum effects instead of using them.
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Quanta Magazine says Scholes and colleagues have shown in papers published over the past three years that complex networks of classical objects can produce phenomena that mathematically mimic quantum objects. Scholes proposes that life might do something similar rather than rely on genuine quantum effects.
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