It wasn’t long ago that the words “quantum” and “biology” didn’t go together. They do now. Narrator Pete Cross sounds like he senses the authors’ excitement and enjoys sharing it with listeners. But what is quantum biology? Let’s take two examples. The first involves bird navigation and the possibility of finding an answer to the question of how birds fly thousands of miles to precise destinations. The second is addresses the mystery of photosynthesis. The authors are well respected scientists and science writers. Lucid writing and an excited reading—how can the listener go wrong? D.R.W. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
Life on the Edge
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge.
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Life on the Edge
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge.
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BN ID: | 2940175732789 |
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Publisher: | Dreamscape Media |
Publication date: | 07/28/2015 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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