Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B016AVIF3Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 523 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Each chapter in Life on the Edge opens with an engaging example that illustrates one of life's puzzles - How do migrating birds know where to go? How do we really smell the scent of a rose? How do our genes manage to copy themselves with such precision? - and then reveals how quantum mechanics delivers its answer. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics. Bringing together firsthand experience of science at the cutting edge with unparalleled gifts of exposition and explanation, 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. Guiding the reader through the maze of rapidly unfolding discovery, Al-Khalili and McFadden communica
Mark Mueller said Cutting-edge topic entertainingly explored with widely sourced top-notch research for support. Quantum physics is certainly weird, but it isn't controversial any more. Quantum effects make technologies such as MRI possible. The authors do a good job of explaining the various physical quantum effects. The description of the famous two slit experiment is very clear in this book. Even though you find the results bizarre, you do understand what the results were and what they say about the quantum . They then showed how certain quantum processes could be a useful area of research such as quantum superposition states to This was an immensely enjoyable read.The approach that the authors took clearly showed that their discussion of quantum biology was not some theoretical musings but based on hard science.They would begin with current accepted ideas such as robins' ability to use the EM fields to navigate, to how the chlorophyll process work. They would then identify areas where there was no clear explanation of of ho. A fascinating new field of research narrated with passion and wit. First of all let me assure everyone that "Life on the Edge" is an easy to read science book even for people, like myself, who are not experts in quantum mechanics and biology. What attracted me to this book was the quite-intriguing title and the fact that I have been familiar to how Jim Al-Khalili was always able to explain complicated stuff in an easy to understand way. So I gave it a try and, as so