2025/10/28
Long-range Collective Quantum Coherence in Tryptophan Mega-Networks of Biological Architectures
"An empirical-based study has found significant photophysical and photochemical effects in mega-networks of tryptophan in biological architectures resulting from quantum optical enhancement during collective coherence, long-range resonance and synchronization. Contrary to what used to be the common sentiment among experts that the biological system was too wet, noisy, and warm for non-trivial quantum effects like collective coherence, the observed superradiance and long-range interactivity even in the ambient thermal environment of the cell disprove such naïve perspectives (naïve because they were not taking into full account the unique structural / geometric organizational properties of cellular proteins and were based on very simplistic purviews of cellular organization), and is now one of many such findings that demonstrate the robustness of non-trivial quantum effects in the biological system. The findings have wide-ranging implications and are important because collective quantum optical effects in tryptophan mega-networks may underlie key cellular orchestration and signaling processes, like potentially ultrafast information transfer in neuronal axons, which have highly ordered core microtubule filamentary bundles." Full discussion by William Brown. Also news articles at EurekaAlert and PopularMechanics.
See relevant research at:
Babcock NS, Montes-Cabrera G, Oberhofer KE, Chergui M, Celardo GL, Kurian P. [2024] "Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architectures". J Phys Chem B. 128(17):4035-4046. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936. PMID: 38641327; PMCID: PMC11075083.
Philip Kurian [2025]. "Computational capacity of life in relation to the universe".Sci. Adv.11,eadt4623(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt4623
Labels: #Biology, #Computation
2025/10/06
Modeling systems
- Fibonacci numbers in Nature. The Romanesco Vegetable.
- Do Plants Know Math? by PBS NOVA
- Fibonacci Spiral Demo.
- Fibonacci Music
The magic of Fibonacci numbers by Arthur Benjamin
Peter Hilton (1923-2010) discusses intriguing number tricks that can be explained by analysing the properties of Fibonacci numbers and the related Lucas numbers. The explanations themselves benefit from further explanations which, in their turn, lead to further discoveries. Recorded at Imperial College London during the 1996 London Mathematical Society Popular Lecture series.
D'Arcy Thompson
- In retrospect: On Growth and Form by Phillip Ball.
- D'Arcy Thompson's Affine Fish Transformations @ Wolfram
- S.J. Gould. [1971] "D'Arcy Thompson and the Science of Form". New Literary History, 2 (2): 229-258
- W. Arthur [2006]. "D'Arcy Thompson and the theory of transformations".Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 401-406.
- Geometry of Growth and Form: Commentary on D'Arcy Thompson
- Java applet for shell sketching
Patterns of Life – D’Arcy Thompson, Structuralism and the Shape of Life
Treasures of the Library 5. D'Arcy Thompson, On growth and form
BLOOMS: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark from Charlie Nordstrom on Vimeo. "This series of 3D printed sculptures was designed in such a way that the appendages match Fibonacci's Sequence, a mathematical sequence that manifests naturally in objects like sunflowers and pinecones. When the sculptures are spun at just the right frequency under a strobe light, a rather magical effect occurs: the sculptures seem to be animated or alive!"
Labels: #Modeling, #SystemsScience
