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Quantum entanglement has disturbed me ever since I first came across it in QM lectures in the late sixties. Einstein also found it most perplexing as there is experimental evidence for instant action at a distance faster than light. There is no violation of the speed of light as no information can be transmitted.

The only mechanism that can explain this connectedness is some sort of linkage in higher dimensions. The so called 'strings' also have this strange property. What to us is an infinitely small vibrating string with the higher dimensions some how hidden could or must have connections to other places in space time via these higher dimensions. This could also go some way to explaining virtual particles appearing out of nowhere.

When the first diffraction patterns were produced by Bucky balls passing one at a time through two slits, you really have to sit up and take notice.

On a related note photosynthesis seems to rely on quantum effects.

see here

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-st...-entanglement/


The article describes far more clearly how our knowledge of biological systems is turning up real surprises.

I have thought for many years that all brains must rely on quantum type 'calculations' at the molecular level. Just think how fast you can retrieve a memory or come up with a solution to a problem 'out of nowhere'.

Biology has had a few billion years of trial and error development to blindly explore the universe.

We as humans have just mastered the foothills. We now live in a time when the mountains are appearing out of the mists of our ignorance.

It is up to all you young ones to climb these mountains as us oldies have at least managed to make base camp.


Bert