{"id":139869,"date":"2022-05-27T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/what-if-quantum-physics-could-eradicate-illness-jim-al-khalili-for-big-think"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:03:14","slug":"what-if-quantum-physics-could-eradicate-illness-jim-al-khalili-for-big-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/what-if-quantum-physics-could-eradicate-illness-jim-al-khalili-for-big-think","title":{"rendered":"What if quantum physics could eradicate illness? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What if quantum physics could eradicate illness? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6caolDAcgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can quantum science supercharge genetics? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This interview is an episode from The Well, our new publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Up next \u25ba Where science fails, according to a physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4hpdKQB2ruc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/4hpdKQB2ruc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum biology examines quantum effects inside cells. This is a tricky field, as physicists are not comfortable working with messy biological systems, while biologists are not comfortable with complex (and seemingly irrelevant) particle physics equations.<\/p>\n<p>But chemists, who straddle the space between physics and biology, know that biological molecules are part of the quantum world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/what-if-quantum-physics-could-eradicate-illness-jim-al-khalili-for-big-think\">Continue reading \u201cWhat if quantum physics could eradicate illness? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can quantum science supercharge genetics? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think. This interview is an episode from The Well, our new publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the John Templeton Foundation. Up next \u25ba Where science fails, according to a physicist https:\/\/youtu.be\/4hpdKQB2ruc. Quantum biology examines quantum effects inside cells. This is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,412,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}