Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

[trevbus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150047

[promethean]

"Most smell researchers think the way that we smell has to do only with the shapes of odour molecules matching those of receptors in our noses.

But Dr Turin believes that the way smell molecules wiggle and vibrate is responsible - thanks to the quantum effect called tunnelling.

The idea holds that electrons in the receptors in our noses disappear on one side of a smell molecule and reappear on the other, leaving a little bit of energy behind in the process."



electrons ?
I smell a rat.

[D_Archer]

The quantum state bit is bogus (entanglement nonsense etc)

Experimentally nothing of the sort is actually observed only plastered on at the end when they realise they have no idea how nature works.

Regards,
Daniel