Is Life Quantum Mechanical? - Prof. Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Kahlili is a master of explaining complex things in a very digestible manner. He is far and away my fav

Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies. The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!" The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?" "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger. The cop moves to apprehend them. Ohm tries his best to resist .

One of the best quantum mechanical talks I have ever heard. The speaker is incredibly good, a real rarity in youtube talks on science. The way he brought quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement into microbiology is thrilling, and I am grateful to him because I believe I vastly increased my knowledge of these fields.

I was taught quantum mechanics and maths by Jim in the mid 1990s..He is genuinely a really good lecture and make the effort to present it so simple brains like mine could understand it.

+10 points for not making us fast forward past the introduction.

thank you Prof. Jim Al-Khalil you serve as a gateway as quantum biology in my life, be grateful for that, cuz you can be assured that I'm feeling much greater appreciation !

I'm actually quite shocked that there isn't more study in this area of science, I find it really amazing that biology utilizes Quantum Mechanics, especially how it seems that the Robin uses Quantum entanglement to sense gravitational field angles, mind blowing stuff to me !, a really great lecture.

Thank you, thank you and thank you for this awesome speech professor Jim

One of the most exciting lectures I have ever heard.

Seriously... this man is a treasure. Most of his docus boil down to the same thing, but with a different twist for every docu. I understand it... but if i have to apply it i get high school flashbacks (explanation versus applocation haha)

"We don't see things how they are, we see things how we are." Dr. Joe Dispenza

Jim al khalili is a brilliant presenter of science.

finally... Prof Kim Khalil speaking to us without the annoying MUSIC ....... pleasure ... thank you Prof Khalili.

great, great teacher man.. thanks..

This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. The future is unfolding with each photon electron coupling or dipole moment relative to the atoms of the periodic table and the wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is part of a universal process of energy exchange that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life.

37:00 minute mark. Question. The first well researched example of “quantum mechanical” is photon conversion to electrical energy in plant life. During the first 200 pico-seconds of contact for each photon, the plant uses a resonant pump of natural atomic rate of vibration at no energy cost to the plant to transmit and explore the best route (meaning also where the energy is not needed) to send the photon’s energy for conversion in the photosynthesis with the plant cell. The discernment mechanism we are calling “quantum mechanical” I submit at the moment of “discernment” is a form of vibrational back pressure in the energy flow. In the plant circuitry the energy is sent through resonance-Path-A until a subtle back pressure quantum mechanically fills resonance-Path-A at which time it takes the next best path, resonance-Path-B. We do not understand yet, apparently, the subtle back pressure. We understand the resonate quantum mechanical free look using the natural atomic vibration rate to select a channel, but not the switching mechanism, “back pressure” wave the says to the photon you are best used in an alternate route. Here are some speculations of that discernment mechanism. (1) It’s a simple amperage vs voltage relationship. The plant has its own specific range. And/Or, (2) The electrons in the atoms in the pathway resist jumping orbits. The natural resistance of the electron is to accept only a range of energy, it builds and builds and then jumps orbit to a higher orbit. Do it enough and the atom releases energy in visible light. But that doesn’t happen in plants. It just can’t in the plant materials. That much energy in the materials would burst the plant into fire and start an oxidation process. I speculate the “back pressure” signaling quantum mechanical free look, is so subtle we just have not yet been able to measure the “back pressure.” Our instruments are not sensitive enough yet. The measuring sensitivity of the equipment may even need to be similar to the equipment used to measure gravitational waves...which is unbelievable in complexity and size. The teams that conducted the studies out of UC Berkeley, were not able to measure such subtle energy “back pressure”. Their equipment measured “pathway” not the “signaling mechanism” to change routes. QUESTION So now if the signaling “back pressure” applies in pathway selection in plants, might it also apply in human biology? How subtle is the back pressure signaling? Let’s consider the human eye circuitry. Light intensity shifts the size of iris dilation. Chemicals can override the process either on the eye or all the way to the visual cortex of the brain. In the unadulterated natural state of food consumption in a well balanced body we might first assess that we do not need to convert photons into plant life. The light entering the eye follows pathways that nonetheless convert photons into electric signals. The photons hit light receptors at the rear of the eye that convert directly to electrical signals. There may be so many fixed pathways that the brain can lose many of them in blind spots and reconfigure consciousness to not notice the blind spots. How does a photon discern the difference between a plant and an eyeball? Is the photon on a carefree merry little trip though space unaware? Or does light have discernment? If light harbors discernment that would seem to imply any number of possibilities. That could go so far as to say there is some sort of two way communications occurring in light as well as through light. And if that’s the case we drift into some sort of universal consciousness. And now we have left science’s domain and broached unavoidably into spirituality and all is one. And here I will leave it. LOL🧠👀

Thank you for intelligent programming.

I liked before watching this video , because i know what you sir do. I Love your work. From INDIAN STUDENT, WEST BENGAL.

@ 1:10:30: Eckersley Lecture date is shown as 2016. That was my first question, and the last one answered. It is nice to be able find the date in the title or description.

Professor Al-Khalili is a force to be reckoned with, that's all I gonna say about him