Planting possibilities

Quantum mechanics is now revealing the reality of the tangibility of possibilities ... they're becoming visibly "real".

For nearly a century we've had the foundation principle of quantum mechanics - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. In broad terms it's a principle that defines the limits to what we can know about quantum "stuff"1. The "limited knowledge" interpretation is a testimony to a culture that is deeply rooted in a fixed, mechanical world-view of life. The particle is assumed to be "just there" ... a physical thing with definite, and definable qualities.2

But recent experiments which show that plants naturally use quantum superpositioning3 and quantum entanglement reveal how the old mechanical world-view is outdated.

The stuff of which we are made is buzzing with superpositions of possibilities ... and that includes the stuff with which we think.

As researchers report:

"We present strong evidence for quantum entanglement in noisy non-equilibrium systems at high temperatures by determining the timescales and temperatures for which entanglement is observable in a protein structure that is central to photosynthesis in certain bacteria," Sarovar says.

"We expect that long-lived, non-equilibrium entanglement will also be present in larger light harvesting antenna complexes ..."

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, when stated in the positive is simply The Possibility Principle, requiring that possibility (superpositions of matter and energy) will always remain inherent to every situation.

The possibilities within one elementary particle are literally endless: the material we use to think and create will continue to enable boundless creativity and solutions.

More soon.

• 1. Technically, 'stuff' is a good handle which discourages being too fixed in our thinking regarding stuff that defies description. See "Quantum powered questions"
• 2. Our inability to fully understand (measure, describe or predict) a particle's characteristics has been blamed on the inherent inability to "see" ever more finer particles (as the stuff we use to see with 'disturbs' the very stuff we're trying to see - effectively "leaving us in the dark").
• 3. See earlier post, how "quantum mechanical probability laws can prevail over the classical laws of kinetics in this complex biological system, even at normal temperatures. The energy can thereby flow efficiently by -- counter intuitively -- traversing several alternative paths through the antenna proteins simultaneously."