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"This work connects the dots among the great pillars of twentieth century #physics #thermodynamics, #relativity, and #quantummechanics—for a major paradigm shift…implications of quantum information processing in wetware at ambient temperatures," said Kurian.

"Physicists and cosmologists should wrestle with these findings, especially as they consider the origins of life on Earth and elsewhere in the habitable universe, evolving in concert with the electromagnetic field."

phys.orgPhysicist revisits the computational limits of life and Schrödinger's essential question in the era of quantum computingMore than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, which eventually came to be published in 1944 under the title "What is Life?"

This may well be the most indecipherable #English sentence in the history of #physics. Gibbs once wrote:
Again, when such gases have been mixed, there is no more impossibility of the separation of the two kinds of molecules in virtue of their ordinary motions in the gaseous mass without any especial external influence, than there is of the separation of a homogeneous gas into the same two parts into which it has once been divided, after these have once been mixed.

Proposing violation of the 1st Law of #Thermodynamics in #QuantumPhysics (which its founder, #MaxPlanck explicitly avoided), was not the only time "Bohr got it wrong", but it was a doozy! See G. N. Lewis and any #chemistry textbook.

By the way, for #HistoryOfScience #Histodons John Dalton is the founder of #QuantumTheory because he correctly proposed the quantization of *mass* in the modern #AtomicTheory that he introduced almost a century before Planck proposed the quantization of #energy.