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Quantum Entanglement within DNA
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 76658155:MV80MTM3Mzc5Xzc1MTQ0ODAzX0E2OUEwNDc=] [quote:cosmicgypsy:MV80MTM3Mzc5Xzc1MTQ0NTI4X0E3NTU4ODFF] OP, I've got to get to work soon, so I don't have the time right now to dig into this fascinating thread. All the same, your thread gets.... :fivestars: ....and if you'd like, I'd like to pin it. I need to know very soon, though, because I've got to get out the door. Just let me know if you'd like it pinned....:hf: [/quote] BTW, this deserves a pin: Quantum Entanglement Holds DNA Together, Say Physicists When the nucleotides bond to form a base, these clouds must oscillate in opposite directions to ensure the stability of the structure. Rieper and co ask what happens to these oscillations, or phonons as physicists call them, when the base pairs are stacked in a double helix. Phonons are quantum objects, meaning they can exist in a superposition of states and become entangled, just like other quantum objects. That’s possible because phonons have a wavelength which is similar in size to a DNA helix and this allows standing waves to form, a phenomenon known as phonon trapping. When this happens, the phonons cannot easily escape. One tantalising suggestion at the end of their paper is that the entanglement may have an influence on the way that information is read off a strand of DNA and that it may be possible to exploit this experimentally. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419590/quantum-entanglement-holds-dna-together-say-physicists/ [/quote]
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This area of research started as a new way to understand the vibrational modes within and between the nucleic acids of DNA.
Models of these vibrational modes started out as classical, binary models of the Van der Waals and Dipole-Dipole interactions. But, the emergence of quantum mechanical models in chemistry led some scientists to ponder on the possibility that these classical biological models could be pinned to a series of entanglements, which would explain the two biggest flaws of the classical systems: time and distance.
The first paper that really grabbed my attention on the idea of quantum entanglement in DNA was a paper published by Elisabeth Rieper from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2010. Titled “Quantum entanglement between the electron clouds of nucleic acids in DNA”. The team came to this conclusion after setting up quantum harmonic oscillators to act as the distribution mechanism for electrons in a dipole-dipole interaction between each of the nucleic acids. When they set this up, they saw that the time taken for the oscillators to operate and the way in which they operated was the same as what was observed naturally within DNA.
Thus, based on the energy within each nucleic acid, DNA could be a set of quantum entanglements that occur at room temperature.
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