Posted on 06/19/2021 11:51:58 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging.
The microscope is powered by the science of quantum entanglement, an effect Einstein described as “spooky interactions at a distance.”
Quantum Microscope Up Close UQ’s quantum microscope, ready to zero in on previously impossible-to-see biology. Credit: The University of Queensland
Professor Warwick Bowen, from UQ’s Quantum Optics Lab and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), said it was the first entanglement-based sensor with performance beyond the best possible existing technology.
“This breakthrough will spark all sorts of new technologies — from better navigation systems to better MRI machines, you name it,” Professor Bowen said.
“Entanglement is thought to lie at the heart of a quantum revolution. We’ve finally demonstrated that sensors that use it can supersede existing, non-quantum technology.
“This is exciting — it’s the first proof of the paradigm-changing potential of entanglement for sensing.”
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Comments are hysterical. Sciencey types being quite taken with themselves.
I looked it up. Schrodinger had too much idle time on his hands.
It’s called superpossimible.
I think Congress should make “Quantum Leap” a National Holiday.
I assume you mean a phaser. 'Gun' is a rather antiquated term in my century.
Okay, got it now.
I always think of the Big Bang Theory when I see Schrodinger’s cat mentioned.
Staying off the class clown agenda, I think this is pretty cool and interesting. Thank you.
Very little productivity about it. Always kills a lot of very interesting threads.
Much like shooting fish in a barrel, you shoot cats in a box.
The young lady is beautiful!
No need for makeup and a fantastic smile!
Thats my kind of lab partner!
(made you look!)
In my opinion the most profound and significant question in Biology and maybe even Physics is the one posed by Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University. His research has shown that individual cells communicate through electrochemical ion channels to construct the complex tissues, organs, and structures like the brain using a shared model of a completed body as a form or template.
They generate proteins from DNA to make the concrete of biosystems while continuously trying to reduce the error between what they have constructed and the abstract information stored in the model.
The question that Levin is trying to ask is “How and where do biological systems encode and store this model?” This model has the properties of readable writeable memory in a computer that connects with the cells through an electrochemical network but hasn’t been detected or measured by any potential measuring device in existence. If the bits of this computer are created by biological systems using quantum entanglement at a molecular level it might be observable using the technology in the article. Once the model can be detected and decoded it could be “reprogrammed” to cure disease or regenerate organs, limbs, and possibly even the brain. This would open the door to a form of immortality that is unimaginable today.
“This would open the door to...”
A great many things. Things we can’t imagine today, probably.
The quantum cryptography the Chinese are working on is also something. They’ve a satellite up they’re testing with.
And they are still unable to locate Kamala’s brain.
And I agree. I do believe there is indeed and unseen “intelligence” at the atomic and subatomic level that we are just coming to understand.
It is interesting stuff to contemplate. Thank you for sharing that. I will chase it down and read more. :)
I understand it can see graphene doing the impossible.
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