Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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His theory suggested that energy, instead of flowing out of matter like water pouring continuously from a tap, came out as a collection of separate, indivisible packages – as if from a slowly dripping tap.
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life is different from the inorganic world because it is structured and orderly even at a molecular level. This order all the way down endows life with a kind of rigid leverage that connects the molecular to the macroscopic, such that quantum events taking place within individual biomolecules can have consequences for an entire organism: