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The origins of life and the universe / / Paul F. Lurquin
| The origins of life and the universe / / Paul F. Lurquin |
| Autore | Lurquin Paul F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Life - Origin
Cosmology |
| ISBN |
1-280-59807-7
9786613627902 0-231-50766-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Foundations of the Universe -- Chapter 2. Building a Universe -- Chapter 3. Life as It Is Today -- Chapter 4. Prebiotic Earth: First Organic Compounds and First Informational Molecules -- Chapter 5. Life on Its Way -- Chapter 6. Has Life Originated Elsewhere and Will It End? -- Appendix 1. A Graphic Representation of Special Relativity -- Appendix 2. More on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle -- Appendix 3. How Do We Know the Age of the Universe? -- Appendix 4. Eric Chaisson's View of Cosmic Evolution -- Appendix 5. Do the Universe and Life Have a Purpose and a Designer? -- Notes -- Glossary -- Notable Scientists -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.]
| Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (102 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Valdivia-SilvaJulio |
| Collana |
Earth sciences in the 21st century
Space science, exploration and policies |
| Soggetto topico |
Life - Origin
Molecular evolution Planets - Origin Planets - Surfaces Geology, Stratigraphic - Archaean |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-62081-488-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452874803321 |
| New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011 | ||
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Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.]
| Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (102 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Valdivia-SilvaJulio |
| Collana |
Earth sciences in the 21st century
Space science, exploration and policies |
| Soggetto topico |
Life - Origin
Molecular evolution Planets - Origin Planets - Surfaces Geology, Stratigraphic - Archaean |
| ISBN | 1-62081-488-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779786603321 |
| New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011 | ||
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Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.]
| Planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition [[electronic resource] ] : possible scenarios for the origin of life / / Julio Valdivia-Silva ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (102 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Valdivia-SilvaJulio |
| Collana |
Earth sciences in the 21st century
Space science, exploration and policies |
| Soggetto topico |
Life - Origin
Molecular evolution Planets - Origin Planets - Surfaces Geology, Stratigraphic - Archaean |
| ISBN | 1-62081-488-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: HADEAN EARTH -- 2.1. TEMPORAL LIMITS -- 2.2. MAGMA OCEAN -- 2.3. LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT -- 2.4. REDOX STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE MANTLE -- 2.5. PRIMITIVE LITHOSPHERE -- 2.6. PLATE TECTONICS AND MINERAL EVOLUTION -- Chapter 3: GEOPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF EARTH'S PRIMITIVE OUTER LAYERS -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. THE YOUNG FAINT SUN PARADOX -- 3.3. THE EARTH'S EARLY MAGNETOSPHERE -- 3.4. COSMIC RAYS AND THE EARLY EARTH -- 3.5. HYDROSPHERE -- 3.6. ATMOSPHERE -- Chapter 4: THE CHEMICAL APPROACH TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- 4.1. THE HETEROTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.2. AUTOTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.3. ENERGY AND MATTER ON EARLY EARTH -- 4.3.1. Energy Sources of Early Earth -- 4.3.2. Organic Matter Sources -- 4.4. STABILITY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN THE PRIMITIVE EARTH -- 4.5. CHEMICAL COMPONENTS IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE -- 4.6. PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY -- 4.6.1. The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis -- 4.6.2. Simulated Experiments -- 4.6.3. RNA World -- 4.6.4. Thioester World -- 4.6.5. Pre-Rna World -- 4.6.6. Clay Theory -- 4.6.7. Thermal Vents -- 4.7. THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY PROBLEM -- 4.8. REMARKS -- Chapter 5: PRE-CELLULAR SYSTEMS AND FIRST ORGANISMS -- 5.1. EARLIEST FOSSILS AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 6: DISCUSSION -- REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES -- WHEN AND WHERE LIFE ORIGINATED ON EARTH? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX. |
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Protocells [[electronic resource] ] : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.]
| Protocells [[electronic resource] ] : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (723 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RasmussenSteen |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial cells
Life (Biology) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-28209-7
1-4356-9409-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I OVERVIEW: BRIDGING NONLIVING AND LIVING MATTER; 1 The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life; 2 Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life; 3 Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives; 4 A Roadmap to Protocells; II INTEGRATION; 5 Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell; 6 Assembly of a Minimal Protocell; 7 Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network; 8 Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments
9 Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry10 Models of Protocell Replication; 11 Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides; 12 Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells; III COMPONENTS; 13 Self-Replication and Autocatalysis; 14 Replicator Dynamics in Protocells; 15 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material; 16 The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes; 17 Parasitism and Protocells:Tragedy of the Molecular Commons 18 Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self- Assembly19 Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations; 20 Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System; 21 Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life; IV BROADER CONTEXT; 22 Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria; 23 Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept; 24 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View; 25 Early Ancestors of Existing Cells; 26 Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells 27 Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications28 Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells; Glossary; About the Authors; Index; Color Plates |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 | ||
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Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen [and others]
| Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (723 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RasmussenSteen |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial cells
Life (Biology) |
| Soggetto non controllato | BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-28209-7
1-4356-9409-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I OVERVIEW: BRIDGING NONLIVING AND LIVING MATTER; 1 The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life; 2 Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life; 3 Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives; 4 A Roadmap to Protocells; II INTEGRATION; 5 Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell; 6 Assembly of a Minimal Protocell; 7 Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network; 8 Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments
9 Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry10 Models of Protocell Replication; 11 Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides; 12 Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells; III COMPONENTS; 13 Self-Replication and Autocatalysis; 14 Replicator Dynamics in Protocells; 15 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material; 16 The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes; 17 Parasitism and Protocells:Tragedy of the Molecular Commons 18 Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self- Assembly19 Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations; 20 Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System; 21 Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life; IV BROADER CONTEXT; 22 Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria; 23 Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept; 24 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View; 25 Early Ancestors of Existing Cells; 26 Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells 27 Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications28 Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells; Glossary; About the Authors; Index; Color Plates |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 | ||
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Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.]
| Protocells : bridging nonliving and living matter / / edited by Steen Rasmussen ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (723 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RasmussenSteen |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial cells
Life (Biology) |
| ISBN |
0-262-28209-7
1-4356-9409-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I OVERVIEW: BRIDGING NONLIVING AND LIVING MATTER; 1 The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life; 2 Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life; 3 Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives; 4 A Roadmap to Protocells; II INTEGRATION; 5 Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell; 6 Assembly of a Minimal Protocell; 7 Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network; 8 Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments
9 Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry10 Models of Protocell Replication; 11 Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides; 12 Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells; III COMPONENTS; 13 Self-Replication and Autocatalysis; 14 Replicator Dynamics in Protocells; 15 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material; 16 The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes; 17 Parasitism and Protocells:Tragedy of the Molecular Commons 18 Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self- Assembly19 Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations; 20 Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System; 21 Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life; IV BROADER CONTEXT; 22 Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria; 23 Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept; 24 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View; 25 Early Ancestors of Existing Cells; 26 Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells 27 Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications28 Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells; Glossary; About the Authors; Index; Color Plates |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 | ||
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Quantum aspects of life [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose
| Quantum aspects of life [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbbottDerek <1960->
DaviesP. C. W PatiArun K |
| Soggetto topico |
Quantum biochemistry
Life - Origin |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-84816-255-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part 1: Emergence and Complexity; 1. A Quantum Origin of Life? Paul C. W. Davies; 1.1. Chemistry and Information; 1.2. Q-life; 1.3. The Problemof Decoherence; 1.4. Life as the "Solution" of a Quantum Search Algorithm; 1.5. Quantum Choreography; Acknowledgements; References; 2. Quantum Mechanics and Emergence Seth Lloyd; 2.1. Bits; 2.2. Coin Flips; 2.3. The Computational Universe; 2.4. Generating Complexity; 2.5. A Human Perspective; 2.6. A QuantumPerspective; References; Part 2: Quantum Mechanisms in Biology
3. Quantum Coherence and the Search for the First Replicator Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden3.1. When did Life Start?; 3.2. Where did Life Start?; 3.3. Where did the Precursors Come From?; 3.4. What was the Nature of the First Self-replicator?; 3.5. The RNAWorld Hypothesis; 3.6. A Quantum Mechanical Origin of Life; 3.6.1. The dynamic combinatorial library; 3.6.2. The two-potential model; 3.6.3. Decoherence; 3.6.4. Replication as measurement; 3.6.5. Avoiding decoherence; 3.7. Summary; References 4. Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis Alexandra Olaya Castro, Francesca Fassioli Olsen, Chiu Fan Lee, and Neil F. Johnson4.1. Introduction; 4.2. A Coherent Photosynthetic Unit (CPSU); 4.3. Toy Model: Interacting Qubits with a Spin-star Configuration; 4.4. A More Detailed Model: Photosynthetic Unit of Purple Bacteria; 4.5. Experimental Considerations; 4.6. Outlook; References; 5. Modelling Quantum Decoherence in Biomolecules Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Time and Energy Scales; 5.3. Models for Quantum Baths and Decoherence 5.3.1. The spin-bosonmodel5.3.1.1. Independent boson model; 5.3.2. Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian; 5.3.3. The spectral density; 5.4. The Spectral Density for the Different Continuum Models of the Environment; 5.5. Obtaining the Spectral Density from Experimental Data; 5.6. Analytical Solution for the Time Evolution of the Density Matrix; 5.7. Nuclear Quantum Tunnelling in Enzymes and the Crossover Temperature; 5.8. Summary; References; Part 3: The Biological Evidence; 6. Molecular Evolution: A Role for Quantum Mechanics in the Dynamics of Molecular Machines that Read and Write DNA Anita Goel 6.1. Introduction6.2. Background; 6.3. Approach; 6.3.1. The information processing power of a molecularmotor; 6.3.2. Estimation of decoherence times of the motor-DNA complex; 6.3.3. Implications and discussion; References; 7. Memory Depends on the Cytoskeleton, but is it Quantum? Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Motivation behind Connecting Quantum Physics to the Brain; 7.3. Three Scales of Testing for Quantum Phenomena in Consciousness; 7.4. Testing the QCI at the 10 nm-10 μm Scale 7.5. Testing for Quantum Effects in Biological Matter Amplified from the 0.1 nm to the 10 nm Scale and Beyond |
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Quantum aspects of life / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose
| Quantum aspects of life / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : Imperial College Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xxvi, 442 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Abbott, Derek
Davies, P.C.W. Pati, Arun K. Penrose, Roger |
| Soggetto topico |
Quantum biochemistry
Biogenesis Quantum Theory Evolution, Molecular |
| ISBN |
9781848162532 (hardcover)
9781848162679 (paperback) |
| Classificazione |
LC QP517.Q34
53.1.4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991000480269707536 |
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Quantum aspects of life [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose
| Quantum aspects of life [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Roger Penrose |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbbottDerek <1960->
DaviesP. C. W PatiArun K |
| Soggetto topico |
Quantum biochemistry
Life - Origin |
| ISBN | 1-84816-255-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part 1: Emergence and Complexity; 1. A Quantum Origin of Life? Paul C. W. Davies; 1.1. Chemistry and Information; 1.2. Q-life; 1.3. The Problemof Decoherence; 1.4. Life as the "Solution" of a Quantum Search Algorithm; 1.5. Quantum Choreography; Acknowledgements; References; 2. Quantum Mechanics and Emergence Seth Lloyd; 2.1. Bits; 2.2. Coin Flips; 2.3. The Computational Universe; 2.4. Generating Complexity; 2.5. A Human Perspective; 2.6. A QuantumPerspective; References; Part 2: Quantum Mechanisms in Biology
3. Quantum Coherence and the Search for the First Replicator Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden3.1. When did Life Start?; 3.2. Where did Life Start?; 3.3. Where did the Precursors Come From?; 3.4. What was the Nature of the First Self-replicator?; 3.5. The RNAWorld Hypothesis; 3.6. A Quantum Mechanical Origin of Life; 3.6.1. The dynamic combinatorial library; 3.6.2. The two-potential model; 3.6.3. Decoherence; 3.6.4. Replication as measurement; 3.6.5. Avoiding decoherence; 3.7. Summary; References 4. Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis Alexandra Olaya Castro, Francesca Fassioli Olsen, Chiu Fan Lee, and Neil F. Johnson4.1. Introduction; 4.2. A Coherent Photosynthetic Unit (CPSU); 4.3. Toy Model: Interacting Qubits with a Spin-star Configuration; 4.4. A More Detailed Model: Photosynthetic Unit of Purple Bacteria; 4.5. Experimental Considerations; 4.6. Outlook; References; 5. Modelling Quantum Decoherence in Biomolecules Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Time and Energy Scales; 5.3. Models for Quantum Baths and Decoherence 5.3.1. The spin-bosonmodel5.3.1.1. Independent boson model; 5.3.2. Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian; 5.3.3. The spectral density; 5.4. The Spectral Density for the Different Continuum Models of the Environment; 5.5. Obtaining the Spectral Density from Experimental Data; 5.6. Analytical Solution for the Time Evolution of the Density Matrix; 5.7. Nuclear Quantum Tunnelling in Enzymes and the Crossover Temperature; 5.8. Summary; References; Part 3: The Biological Evidence; 6. Molecular Evolution: A Role for Quantum Mechanics in the Dynamics of Molecular Machines that Read and Write DNA Anita Goel 6.1. Introduction6.2. Background; 6.3. Approach; 6.3.1. The information processing power of a molecularmotor; 6.3.2. Estimation of decoherence times of the motor-DNA complex; 6.3.3. Implications and discussion; References; 7. Memory Depends on the Cytoskeleton, but is it Quantum? Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Motivation behind Connecting Quantum Physics to the Brain; 7.3. Three Scales of Testing for Quantum Phenomena in Consciousness; 7.4. Testing the QCI at the 10 nm-10 μm Scale 7.5. Testing for Quantum Effects in Biological Matter Amplified from the 0.1 nm to the 10 nm Scale and Beyond |
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