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What Is the Point of Plants?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Photo Synthesis and Quantum Mechanics

No one thought this could go on inside a living cell, because living cells are too hot and messy. Complex quantum effects like this are very delicate, and they're very quickly lost. This is why we have so much trouble trying to build a quantum computer. And people oo the back of the envelope calculations years ago and decided that inside life forms these contim effects should disappear in fento seconds.

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