{"id":1328,"date":"2010-02-06T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-02-06T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T04:29:00","slug":"algae-knew-about-quantum-mechanics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/algae-knew-about-quantum-mechanics-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Knew about Quantum Mechanics 2 bln yrs Before Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ver12blkht\">In a new study, a team of chemists from the University of Toronto in Canada have observed quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae, which suggests algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ver12blkht\">&#8220;Our latest experiments show that normally functioning biological systems have the capacity to use quantum mechanics in order to optimize a process as essential to their survival as photosynthesis,&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"ver12blkht\">said chemistry  professor Greg Scholes, lead author of the study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ver12blkht\">Scholes and his colleagues isolated light-harvesting complexes from two different species of marine algae and studied their function under natural temperature conditions using a sophisticated laser experiment known as two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/algae-knew-about-quantum-mechanics-2-bln-yrs-before-humans-news-international-kcep4dahaej.html\"><span class=\"ver12blkht\">See more <\/span><span class=\"ver12blkht\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><span class=\"ver12blkht\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. In a new study, a team of chemists from the University of Toronto in Canada have observed quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae, which suggests algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans. &#8220;Our latest experiments show that normally functioning biological systems have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-strains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}