{"id":210206,"date":"2025-03-31T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-fiber-optics-in-the-brain-enhance-processing-may-protect-against-degenerative-diseases"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:12:07","slug":"quantum-fiber-optics-in-the-brain-enhance-processing-may-protect-against-degenerative-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-fiber-optics-in-the-brain-enhance-processing-may-protect-against-degenerative-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Quantum fiber optics in the brain enhance processing, may protect against degenerative diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-fiber-optics-in-the-brain-enhance-processing-may-protect-against-degenerative-diseases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The effects of quantum mechanics\u2014the laws of physics that apply at exceedingly small scales\u2014are extremely sensitive to disturbances. This is why quantum computers must be held at temperatures colder than outer space, and only very, very small objects, such as atoms and molecules, generally display quantum properties.<\/p>\n<p>By quantum standards, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological systems<\/a> are quite hostile environments: they\u2019re warm and chaotic, and even their fundamental components\u2014such as cells\u2014are considered very large.<\/p>\n<p>But a group of theoretical and experimental researchers has discovered a distinctly quantum effect in biology that survives these difficult conditions and may also present a way for the brain to protect itself from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/degenerative+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">degenerative diseases<\/a> like Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of quantum mechanics\u2014the laws of physics that apply at exceedingly small scales\u2014are extremely sensitive to disturbances. This is why quantum computers must be held at temperatures colder than outer space, and only very, very small objects, such as atoms and molecules, generally display quantum properties. By quantum standards, biological systems are quite hostile [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210206","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}