Jim Al-Kahlili is a master of explaining complex things in a very digestible manner. He is far and away my fav

Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies. The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!" The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?" "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger. The cop moves to apprehend them. Ohm tries his best to resist .

One of the best quantum mechanical talks I have ever heard. The speaker is incredibly good, a real rarity in youtube talks on science. The way he brought quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement into microbiology is thrilling, and I am grateful to him because I believe I vastly increased my knowledge of these fields.

I was taught quantum mechanics and maths by Jim in the mid 1990s..He is genuinely a really good lecture and make the effort to present it so simple brains like mine could understand it.

+10 points for not making us fast forward past the introduction.

Thank you, thank you and thank you for this awesome speech professor Jim

One of the most exciting lectures I have ever heard.

thank you Prof. Jim Al-Khalil you serve as a gateway as quantum biology in my life, be grateful for that, cuz you can be assured that I'm feeling much greater appreciation !

Jim al khalili is a brilliant presenter of science.

great, great teacher man.. thanks..

I'm actually quite shocked that there isn't more study in this area of science, I find it really amazing that biology utilizes Quantum Mechanics, especially how it seems that the Robin uses Quantum entanglement to sense gravitational field angles, mind blowing stuff to me !, a really great lecture.

finally... Prof Kim Khalil speaking to us without the annoying MUSIC ....... pleasure ... thank you Prof Khalili.

Thank you for intelligent programming.

Seriously... this man is a treasure. Most of his docus boil down to the same thing, but with a different twist for every docu. I understand it... but if i have to apply it i get high school flashbacks (explanation versus applocation haha)

1:10:02 Closing your set with a quantum mechanics Brexit bit. 🔥

"We don't see things how they are, we see things how we are." Dr. Joe Dispenza

Brilliant man and great lecturer.

37:00 minute mark. Question. The first well researched example of “quantum mechanical” is photon conversion to electrical energy in plant life. During the first 200 pico-seconds of contact for each photon, the plant uses a resonant pump of natural atomic rate of vibration at no energy cost to the plant to transmit and explore the best route (meaning also where the energy is not needed) to send the photon’s energy for conversion in the photosynthesis with the plant cell. The discernment mechanism we are calling “quantum mechanical” I submit at the moment of “discernment” is a form of vibrational back pressure in the energy flow. In the plant circuitry the energy is sent through resonance-Path-A until a subtle back pressure quantum mechanically fills resonance-Path-A at which time it takes the next best path, resonance-Path-B. We do not understand yet, apparently, the subtle back pressure. We understand the resonate quantum mechanical free look using the natural atomic vibration rate to select a channel, but not the switching mechanism, “back pressure” wave the says to the photon you are best used in an alternate route. Here are some speculations of that discernment mechanism. (1) It’s a simple amperage vs voltage relationship. The plant has its own specific range. And/Or, (2) The electrons in the atoms in the pathway resist jumping orbits. The natural resistance of the electron is to accept only a range of energy, it builds and builds and then jumps orbit to a higher orbit. Do it enough and the atom releases energy in visible light. But that doesn’t happen in plants. It just can’t in the plant materials. That much energy in the materials would burst the plant into fire and start an oxidation process. I speculate the “back pressure” signaling quantum mechanical free look, is so subtle we just have not yet been able to measure the “back pressure.” Our instruments are not sensitive enough yet. The measuring sensitivity of the equipment may even need to be similar to the equipment used to measure gravitational waves...which is unbelievable in complexity and size. The teams that conducted the studies out of UC Berkeley, were not able to measure such subtle energy “back pressure”. Their equipment measured “pathway” not the “signaling mechanism” to change routes. QUESTION So now if the signaling “back pressure” applies in pathway selection in plants, might it also apply in human biology? How subtle is the back pressure signaling? Let’s consider the human eye circuitry. Light intensity shifts the size of iris dilation. Chemicals can override the process either on the eye or all the way to the visual cortex of the brain. In the unadulterated natural state of food consumption in a well balanced body we might first assess that we do not need to convert photons into plant life. The light entering the eye follows pathways that nonetheless convert photons into electric signals. The photons hit light receptors at the rear of the eye that convert directly to electrical signals. There may be so many fixed pathways that the brain can lose many of them in blind spots and reconfigure consciousness to not notice the blind spots. How does a photon discern the difference between a plant and an eyeball? Is the photon on a carefree merry little trip though space unaware? Or does light have discernment? If light harbors discernment that would seem to imply any number of possibilities. That could go so far as to say there is some sort of two way communications occurring in light as well as through light. And if that’s the case we drift into some sort of universal consciousness. And now we have left science’s domain and broached unavoidably into spirituality and all is one. And here I will leave it. LOL🧠👀❤️

Jim is so good!

Brilliant!

Excellent lecture enhanced by the personality of the speaker

What a great lecture!!!

I liked before watching this video , because i know what you sir do. I Love your work. From INDIAN STUDENT, WEST BENGAL.

@ 1:10:30: Eckersley Lecture date is shown as 2016. That was my first question, and the last one answered. It is nice to be able find the date in the title or description.

intriguing

Love professor Al-Kahlili

Great lecture

very cool!

Amazing lectures. Thank you Sir.

Great video

love this man of science. brilliant, articulate, observer of facts, devoid of personal opinion. my hero. idiots have opinions...brilliant minds conclude from facts...observed or hypothesized.

Wow. Very, very interesting.

Great lecture. Anyways, if you've already seen his documentary "The secrets of Quantum Physics: Let There Be Life" you can skip it, it covers basically the same subjects.

This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. The future is unfolding with each photon electron coupling or dipole moment relative to the atoms of the periodic table and the wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is part of a universal process of energy exchange that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life.

Awesome. Rivetting

I quite like jim. His interviews on life scientific are quite good though if like them to be longer and better edited. As someone with zero training or education I find it all fantastic and enjoy it when I understand bits. However , being more spiritual than scientific by inclination I tend to see big answers mixed with philosophy and spiritual experience. As we won't ever understand nothing and something , I'm enjoying the benefits of science while " believing for my contined meaning , happiness and existence beyond any material realm conceived by man and his material quantum univeses

A brilliant and eloquent scientist, very well explained, however he did miss entanglement and tunneling

Anyone familiar with Professor Denis Noble and his theory, books and lectures on Biological Relativity? both his books are fascinating reads...

You raise some important biochem examples of your hypothesis Jim!! Besides the tunneling cases is qm resonances that transfer energy from proteins to others in soliton theory.. Davyfovs' models, based on the Schrodinger equations. In the eye 👁 for example recoverin allows rapid firing of optic nerves to see continuously. Someday we'll have more of quantum biology examples.

As always so interesting to listen to Jim. He has away in conveying complex subject in a very interesting way.

Very inspiring speech. What puzzles is from where an atom gets all the energy to exist in two or more places at the same time? From where all the energy is taken to sustain multi-universes simultaneously? Why we on Earth always default to the lowest energy instance of all universes, confirmed when the fuel tank of a car empties, the car stops, playing the-cat-dead and 'frozen' but never alive? Quantum world is amazing, indeed.

Very good

life itself is very much vinculateted to the nature of the universe, the fact that natures ages that is a quantum efect

The camera guy did not need to follow the speaker. Would have been nice to see the screen more often

It is possible that in uncertainty principle, particle seems to be jumping but it might be moving continuously along a path part of which is in higher dimension. So we can not see that part which isi. Higher dimension and hence think that it jumps

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

Yes Mr. Al-Khalili you are brilliant,,I recently watched a Spark video where the demon was controlling the "hot" atoms and the "cold" atoms,,re: memory,,ahh yes it was the Information Video,,awesome too I might add,,this point @ 27:00 roughly reminded me of that,,you are so easy to understand,,thank you for you master oratory!

spinning clockwise and counter cw simply describes a standing wave

the description of the light spectrum has different wavelengths, how all types of wavelengths become beneficial to living things. so the plant can adjust to the wavelength of the corresponding light.

Re: 1:01:43 mark Middle age !! Love it!! I am a big two years or so your senior,,,just like the analogy to "middle"age! LOL!!

life is really quantum machanical..you are sbsolutly right

what I find even more mind-boggling with quantum entanglement is that if the distance that the two electrons occupy the signal that makes them react exactly the same whether they are a foot apart or a light year apart happens instantaneously ain't that something magic Cecilia was, Bob the blonde bedroom guitars

This is all very interesting looking at a purely physical aspect of Quantum mechanics, however now that it has been 3 more years since this video. Where do you position yourself on the theory that the human thought has energy and that energy relates to the universe and would that end at the end of the Milky Way or is the energy trapped by our solar system exclusive to us ? Perhaps it is a part of an infinite energy system that has no restrictions or boundaries??? I'm really just asking, however I am truly interested in your thoughts on this. I would love to hear your thoughts and concepts. Shane

Thanks, A.I.Channel! I love your videos -- how you get them all is a mystery most profound. Quantum Bio and how/whether it is integral to brain functioning is a fascinating topic to ponder. May it be necessary to consciousness, after all (despite Penrose getting it wrong)?? Another example of QB that Al-Khalili talks about in his book (Life on the Edge) concerns the sense of smell. Hydrogens in certain fragrant organic molecules were replaced with deuterium. So exact same chemistry, but different quantum properties (resonance). And they smelled quite distinct, even to our (rather feeble) human noses. My (rather feeble) human brain boggles. Cheers!

Life is a Highway...

I'm a massive fan (have read both Pathfinders and Life on the Edge), but comparing Hameroff and Penrose to homeopathy and asserting that quantum consciousness is discredited is just not fair. Hameroff in particular is hammering out credible papers on this topic, co-authored with others such as Anirban Bandyopadhyay.

Very interesting! I hope that you go further from this into quantum brain activity. How does a brain work at a quantum level? Is the brain an intelligent matter? Can we basically control matter through our conscious thoughts or is it all just an illusion and everyhing is pre-determined?

the question assumes that the study of physics is somehow separate, or other, than regular life.. but if you think about it... the study of the Universe we live in pretty much includes everything and, yes, the processes of life are very much governed by the quantum Universe... it's not separate, it's really really small... 1.6169 (10-³⁵) = the Planck length.... at which point our Universe seethes with sub quark particles that pop in and out of existence continuously, bringing new hydrogen atoms continuously all around us all the time... Leonard Susskind of Stanford has talked about the "holographic" Universe... and I have been thinking about this, a lot... it's almost like we create our own reality through our thoughts and ideas... and we create them from something that is not there, yet.... the future....through the auspices of quantum foam... it's been said the Human mind has more possible connections than there are atoms in the visible Universe.... the double slit experiment shows clearly that an intelligent observer drastically modifies the outcome of any process.... one bit of wisdom from the past said "as ye believe, so shall it be " Make it so

The solvent extraction of compounds from complex substances benefits, when washing organic materials off your hands, from the use of a bipolar molecule, "dualistic detergent", because the naturally occurring phase integration of bonds is the Quantum Fields Mechanism in actuality. Concepts of integrated existence are "vertically integrated" versions of the illustrated methodology. Coherence, zero to one, in relative proportion in the Universal interval, is all there is in shifting states defined by physical laws, and a cultural environment has linguistic representations of relatedness, approximately relevant to scientific Nomenclature, which is supposed to be "valueless" abstraction - systematic identity stratification. (?)

"Essentially", Quantum is an active quality throughout Existence, equals quantum mechanism connection by another name, so everywhere and anywhere is a relative quantized state, not empty, it's as posited in another part of the talk, a lower logarithmic occurrence of information. Superspin-spectrum. The exclusion principle is the distributing action of the information spectrum, that provides a reasonable explanation for observations, that prohibits the skier going both sides of a tree "at once", (possibility is The Universe, probability is the focused dominance of the wave-package), it's still a matter of quantized proportions. (Maybe QM is being used as a handy excuse for maintaining the "gravy train" mystery for Academic study, but the practical users can just get on and use what works?)

.....Suppose you replace the phrase "2 different places at the same time".....with...."booth alive, and dead" at the same time...and you only know WHICH when you attempt to observe....

Great lecture but cameraman needs shooting, should have just held a wide shot and colour balanced the camera for the projection screen and leave it at that.

Presentation time stamp (37:31) - I don't know if at heart Jim Al-Khalili prescribes fully to the 'blind determination theory' of Darwinism but it would of been more accurate to of said "It appears that nature on a biological level seems to posses the innate ability to be able to achieve photosynthesis in spite of its complex stages..." in comparison toimpossibility

I've long admired Jims presentation techniques, he's obviously a very clever chap. This was the first time I've seen him exposed to well meaning questions from a lay audience. It saddened me to see him virtually squirm on several issues. I would have hoped he would have the confidence in himself and his topic to not shrink into the classical, conservative science establishment posture and be so uncomfortable.

if we consider space as the only visible part of our universe...we can consider the existence of other invisible universes inhabited as ours with life like things that have different properties where QM is ruling every aspect of their life...!?

what no music (random noises ) that are in his other videos great

Good lecture, but bad camerawork - often doesn't get to the illustrations in time. But thanks anyway.

Quantum particles & waves are of subatomic level that are in the form of photons, electrons and protons. Electromagnetic waves incorporate quantum, as well.

I appreciate your superb ability to communicate matters regarding quantum biology. However, I did not hear any discussion about the big questions in biology, even interesting guesses at them. You made brief references to an information field and to holographic something or other. But I’d like to probe your brain on the concept of an informed field, on morphogenetics (coherence of development of organisms), cells and organisms interacting with each other in a quantum way, non-local fields and local fields (potential thoughts actualized into thoughts). Maybe we are still 40 years away from being able to talk about such subjects. I challenge physicists to look for ways of testing such ideas, including extra sensory perception. It certainly requires pushing some boundaries of research and allowing academics to look at these areas without being blackballed by their colleagues as crazy!

Reality is everything that exist has both wave and particles properties. You can even calculate the probability of a person going from one side of wall appearing on the other without going through the space between.

Could you influence the superposition by the power of the mind? So could we if we believe.. change matter?

He keep saying happen to be in deferent places at Sam time , and it could be in two or three different times , problem is what time u are located not only the opject

The solid existence shows us our internal mechanism of thinking and its repercussions - It shows us US, it IS us. You see, when we want to measure something, it is because we try to understand that something, that is to say, we create a question in our mind and expect it to get a determinate answer. This very exercise of posing a question with a demand for this one exact correct answer is what creates duality in our psyche. The duality manifests as in: is this the RIGHT answer or not? The repercussion of this is that we become confined by our own self imposed prison in the search for an illusory answer - we get trapped in space and time. Now, why do i say all this? Well, If we look closely at the solid existence out there, both at the microscopic scale and the macroscopic, we can start to see ourselves in it; As though the outside solid is mimicking the abstract inside of ourselves, or in other words, they are both and the same. The similarities can be found there: The very act of observing or measuring a particle (that is, we are imposing on it the question form that we are hoping to get an answer for) collapses the wave function into a particle; so lo and behold, spacetime has given birth to a particle in the same way you give birth to spacetime by the very fact of thinking and therefore the particle has a duality nature to it. This is manifested as Quantum entanglement - duality itself in a solid form. Do you see the resemblance? The particle behaves just like our minds when we get lost in thinking expecting to know something definite about something - That is the nature of thought. Of course out of the microscopic, the macroscopic gets built itself upon, with duality being written all over it, making it very "easy" for us to pose all kinds of questions about it and get dual-nature "answers" for the thinking mind, which by the way, hardly truly satisfy us no matter how elegant and correct we make them to be, because at the end, we can't help but hear the reverberations of the music of our own self built circus. So maybe we should ask the subatomic particles for any useful guidance to end this endless cycle of suffering, they'll tell you; they know how it feels to live in a free wavy world with any expectation to become, because that is the curse of spacetime. If you got what i am trying to convey here, as a natural consequence your itchy due to not grasping quantum mechanics persistent discomfort should recede into a comfortably understanding of the non understandable which by itself is an illusion and implode into a black hole of bliss and connectedness with everything - which is you. The true you, not the dual you. Existence as in ourselves, is reflecting back at us US, and showing us who we truly are. Peace and love. Show less REPLY

Who thumbs down a quantum physics / biochemistry lecture by esteemed Jim al khalili?? How did you find this video in your feed? Lol the video was only just published today!

Stop thinking about particle like if it is little billiard ball but rather think about them as wave into fields and it is easy to understand why a wave can pass through a wall of wave or why a wave can occupy 2 place at the same time. It is only when you try to measure a particle that it appears to be at 1 place and appears to be point like. When you start to think everything seems like particle then everything seems like waves then everything seems like information.

Quantum biology for room temperature quantum computing...perhaps? Easier to speculate than conceive, of course.

Good lecture, but bad camerawork

Whether proton tunneling can cause mutations is still an open question ?? The only way it would not cause mutation is that if the mutated cell could not replicate itself after the tunneling occur so the answer is yes unless you can prove that those mutated molecule lose the capacity to replicate themself.

Quantum gravity. Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics, and where quantum effects cannot be ignored, such as near compact astrophysical objects where the effects of gravity are strong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

Life might be the only thing that can manipulate anti matter and time...

Let's be realistic.... Quantum is just a word to describe something in physics we can't understand.

The title is rhetorical in the extreme - I am a qualified Biochemist, and therefore instantly can give the answer - A BIG FAT YES ! The following classical examples apply - Photosynthesis, Vision, Hearing, Protein Folding, Flagella, Oxidative Phosphorylation (the source of all cellular energy with Photosynth)..and so many more. All Biochemists also need to be Chemists and Physicists, and Quantum Mechanics sufficiently to work with this process. The Copenhagen Interpretation is the basis of all life - which is to say, the interaction of Electron Shells ! So, this was a rather silly title.....and as I listened, it seemed a lecture that I could have given far better than the gentleman concerned !

My questions is can it blend?

if E=h*f, and E is quantized, does this mean that also f is quantized?

This chaps makes understanding fundamental particles (Quantum Mechanics) easy - I love it.

Great that we can't see the slides. Gave up early on when I realized I would only see half the story.

Is enlightened outside the mechanism of the universe??

Lost in the maze of facts, u see, but u cannot fathom! Yr ever learning, but u never come to the understanding

Life is everything you may think of and everything you may not think of ...i have a question is the mind quantum mechanical yes it is .is the brain the receptor of the physical universe yes it is after i die will i perceive the universe as it is when i was alive no no is there a soul yes and does it travel faster than light yes it is

How could I use ancient rules and tell lives of 117 people ( in 5 months) , 3 hour audios each, without ever meeting them or knowing them based on their birthdays and do it accurately, statistically significantly, if we were not programmed?? Some one wants to explain that to me? My entire research is online. On public third party platform.

Very nicely explained. It made me believe that we might have the Star Trek way of medicating ourselves when broken.

Hi:-) Listen to part one of Domains of Belief by Prof K D Irani he actually knew Einstein and shrődinger. Tells ya some great anecdotes about them.

I don't like being told that I can not understand quantum mechanics and I must simply accept it. The fact is that there has to be an explanation. So, what if time is actually two dimensional and quantum particles can move in both time dimensions but classical particles can only move in one? Once a quantum particle interacts with a classical particle it looses the ability to move in the second time dimension.

Thank you for not dismissing the word vibration, like many physicists who think that word has carried too much of a spiritual nature. Yes, Vibrations is exactly how we communicate with other realms. The use of vibes within our common day slangs, is the proof that people know it is happening, yet they don’t understand why or how. In fact, we are truly entering a stage in life where our consciousness is raising and starting to perceive the astral world in its looser aspects.

why don't scientists build subatomic detecting equipment (or close to this size limit) in order to get a closer look at all these quantum phenomenons?

Nice scale showing how small things can go... but where is the scale showing how big things can go and where we humans are placed in that scale? Could there be a possibility of Milky way itself being some short of a organism and we humans just a part of its body exactly how we have organisms in our body but them have no idea whats going on out here where we living and out there where we call it space? I see a pattern going on here, there is always smaller and smaller and smaller "world" of things. So how can we be sure that we're the perfect sized organism?

BTW, *when and who discredited Penrose-Hameroff model?*

At 6:30 prof Al-Kahlili states that all over the world schools still teach the "mini solar system" model of the nucleus of an atom and then states that is wrong. Now for him to say that as a professor himself knowing that's a big statement to make how come the teaching, scientific and Academic community of the world still allows that to be taught?

Can electrons "borrow" energy from the future?

Well, the Quantum Eraser Experiment seems to violate Causality....so it easy to understand why some physicists might want to look deeper for explanations.