Multiple-state existence found in ordinary plants

Photosynthesis (plants turning light into food) turns out to be evidence of multiple-state existence, according to a recent article in Wired.

From the article:

The analogy I like is if you have three ways of driving home through rush hour traffic. On any given day, you take only one. You don’t know if the other routes would be quicker or slower. But in quantum mechanics, you can take all three of these routes simultaneously. You don’t specify where you are until you arrive, so you always choose the quickest route...

Supersizing quantum behavior

Read Supersizing Quantum Behavior @seedmag http://bit.ly/9SvPl Discovering quantum weirdness on a macro scale has huge implications.

Basically, everything around us is governed by Newtonian laws, laws that predict objects will act in very less than strange ways. Take it to the quantum scale and all sorts of weird things happen; for example, an atom may exist in two states at once, they may possibly communicate over great distances faster than the speed of light or (as some experiments hope to demonstrate) even across time. There's a whole host of weirdness at the quantum level, things that, if they occured on the macro scale, would be considered nothing less than paranormal. The argument against quantum mysticism was never that it didn't make sense at the quantum scale. The arguments have always centered around the premise that quantum effects don't scale up. Supersizing quantum behavior, even a small Newtonian fail, gives a tiny (quantum?) bit of plausibility to the ideas presented in books like The Holographic Universe and films like What the Bleep Do We Know?

Entanglement: a love story

Poets, painters, writers, musicians - all have tried to express love. Not just love, but enduring love. The kind that haunts you forever. How odd is it, then, that the most beautiful expression of romance comes not from artists, but instead from the love-is-biochemical-processes crowd of scientists.

Soulmate love, aptly put:



From the artist, Justin Mullins:

ENTANGLEMENT
The connections between ordinary objects are fleeting and superficial. Two atoms may collide and separate, never to meet again. Others can stick together by virtue of the chemical bonds they form, until the day that bond is broken.

But there is another type of connection that is far more powerful and romantic. Certain objects can become linked by a mysterious process called entanglement. Particles that become entangled are deeply connected regardless of the distance between them. If they become separated by the width of the Universe, the bond between them remains intact. These particles are so deeply linked that it's as if they somehow share the same existence.

Physicists do not yet fully understand the nature of entanglement but there is growing evidence that it is a fundamental property of the universe. Unfettered by the restrictions of space, entanglement may be the ghostly bedrock upon which reality is built.

Exactly.