New York Times Bestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Using first-hand experience at the cutting edge of science, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal that missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics. Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, each chapter in Life on the Edge illustrates one of life's puzzles: How do migrating birds know where to go? How do we really smell the scent of a rose? How do our genes copy themselves with such precision? Life on the Edge accessibly reveals how quantum mechanics can answer these probing questions of the universe. Guiding the reader through the rapidly unfolding discoveries of the last few years, Al-Khalili and McFadden describe the explosive new field of quantum biology and its potentially revolutionary applications, while offering insights into the biggest puzzle of all: what is life? As they brilliantly demonstrate in these groundbreaking pages, life exists on the quantum edge. – Winner, Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Science & Math

McFadden, Johnjoe

Al-Khalili, Jim

Biological Sciences

Crown

New York Times bestseller • Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics. Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Using first-hand experience at the cutting edge of science, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal that missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics. Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, each chapter in Life on the Edge illustrates one of life's puzzles: How do migrating birds know where to go? How do we really smell the scent of a rose? How do our genes copy themselves with such precision? Life on the Edge accessibly reveals how quantum mechanics can answer these probing questions of the universe. Guiding the reader through the rapidly unfolding discoveries of the last few years, Al-Khalili and McFadden describe the explosive new field of quantum biology and its potentially revolutionary applications, while offering insights into the biggest puzzle of all: what is life? As they brilliantly demonstrate in these groundbreaking pages, life exists on the quantum edge. Winner, Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge.

Dreamscape Media

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it  come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge.

Der Quantenbeat des Lebens: Wie Quantenbiologie die Welt neu erklärt

Ullstein Verlag GmbH

Nessuno finora è riuscito a creare la vita. A tutt'oggi, pur con tutte le dichiarazioni roboanti della "biologia sintetica", l'unico modo per "costruire" la vita è sempre e solo la vita. È evidente che ci sfugge ancora un ingrediente, qualcosa che spieghi la complessità del fenomeno vitale. Tuttavia, sulla base di recentissimi esperimenti, rigorosi e ripetibili, stiamo forse cominciando a capire cosa succede laggiù, nel profondo delle cellule viventi, e ci stiamo finalmente avviando a capire fenomeni che per secoli erano parsi inspiegabili, proprio attingendo al bizzarro e controintuitivo mondo dei quanti. L'incredibile forza della fotosintesi, ad esempio, sembra dovere la sua inarrivabile efficienza al fatto che a un certo punto del processo le particelle subatomiche coinvolte si trovano contemporaneamente in due punti distinti grazie ai fenomeni quantistici. Anche il funzionamento degli enzimi, la base stessa del nostro essere in vita, deve la sua perfezione quasi miracolosa al fatto che nel corso della reazione chimica alcune particelle sembrano "svanire" da un punto per "materializzarsi" istantaneamente da un'altra parte. E che dire del passero europeo, che ogni anno migra dal Nordeuropa al Nordafrica? Come trova la strada? Di nuovo la fisica quantistica fa capolino: basta un singolo fotone che colpisca una cellula specializzata della retina di questo uccellino ed ecco che il passero si trova a disposizione un'incredibile "bussola quantistica"...

La fisica della vita. La nuova scienza della biologia quantistica

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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Der Quantenbeat des Lebens: Wie Quantenbiologie die Welt neu erklärt

La fisica della vita. La nuova scienza della biologia quantistica