Su suggerimento di @ulrich.

 

Un post sull’origine della vita (niente di meno): alcuni ricercatori pensano che il quantum criticality abbia giocato un ruolo cruciale, avendo trovato dei segni in un molte biomolecole.

Today, Stuart Kauffmann at the University of Calgary in Canada and a few pals provide some extraordinary new insight into how all this might happen. These show that most biomolecules are quantum critical conductors; their electronic properties are precisely tuned to the transition point between a metal and an insulator.

In other words, biomolecules belong to an entirely new class of conductor that is not bound by the ordinary rules of electron transport, a discovery that has profound implications for our understanding of the nature of life and its origin.

 

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