We peer into the heavens with telescopes, but we are yet to truly understand the baffling quantum biology universe that lies within us.
‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth,’ so said Sherlock Holmes. Quantum Biology is truly the next frontier.
It is so much within and around us but we know next to nothing about it. We have tried to camouflage this ignorance by using the catchphrase ‘nature’. But try getting someone to define it. We will have a million answers and yet be no closer to identifying the definitive one.
Quantum biology can provide that intelligent framework. Among other things, it can explain how life began, evolution, consciousness, photosynthesis, bird flights over thousands of kilometres continuously guided by Earth’s magnetic fields, pheromones that attract us to potential mates, the sense of smell and more importantly in these troubled times, the behaviour of viruses and our immune systems.
QB deals with extremely tiny particles/molecules which exhibit seemingly improbable properties.
Small wonders
Enzymes, neurons, hormones and nucleotide bases (chemicals denoted by the four letters, A, C, G, T, that are the building blocks of our DNA) are all quantum elements.
They can each be in many places at the same time and be entangled with one another in ways that we cannot yet visualize. A change in the state or position of one element will induce corresponding changes in other elements.
These small wonders can also pass through seemingly impenetrable energy barriers like ghosts walking through a closed door. This raises the intriguing possibility of them being able to operate across multiple dimensions in time and space. But more on that later.
These invisible and mysterious processes are the key to our conception, growth and death and ultimately evolution. They determine much more than whether we are likely to be tall or blue-eyed or prone to cancer.
The important point to consider is that these quantum elements are arranged like a pack of cards. They inform us about basic probabilities such as what are the odds of finding the Ace of Spades.
But the shuffling of this pack happens unlike in any game we have known. Another pack may be mysteriously added or deleted during super-fast shuffles. Every shuffle creates new probabilities which relate to the original probability of finding an Ace of Spades.
Inside out
All this is only internal. The quantum elements of our body are also entangled with chemicals, photons and energy from across the universe. This adds even more packs of cards, causes a whole lot more shuffling and the game gets tremendously complex. The link between cause and effect is no longer straightforward.
This is how cells mutate and we evolve. We shape the environment and it shapes us.
Coming back to the multi-dimensional nature of this bio-quantum game, if quantum elements are in many places at the same time, we can conclude that they are able to move back and forth in space and time. Watch this excellent video by Prof. Jim Al Khalili
So, at some point in the future, we may be able to reverse aging or regress cancers. So far, we have thought of space and time as absolute and linear concepts.
What if the entire universe and our body is a spacetime machine? We need to think SMALL and look WITHIN to achieve what seems to be impossible.
Quantum concepts
Entanglement: Two particles can be 1000s of kms away but be connected in such a way that you make a small change in particle A and particle B instantaneously displays a corresponding change.
Superposition: A tiny particle can simultaneously be in multiple points in space and time. The probability curve of it being found in these different points is defined as a wave.
Tunneling: A particle can ‘tunnel’s through an apparently impenetrable energy barrier to reach somewhere you would least expect to find it.
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