
What Is the Point of Plants?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Is That Going to Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?
Life seems to have hit upon this trick. It may be that we can make use of it. We don't know. I could imagine, for example, e learning from nature the way it transfers sunlight so efficiently down to the reaction centre. Maybe in developing better, more efficient solar cells. If we could find a better way of doing it, that would solve our energy needs. But it's too early, too early to say.
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