Scientists conducted a study in which they noticed unusual energy values, likely indicating that bacteria may be entangled with photons.
Several years ago, scientists conducted a study in which they showed that photosynthetic bacteria can absorb and emit photons when light is reflected in a miniature space between two mirrors.
Now there is a new work, an article about which has been published in the Journal of Physics Communications. She showed that this process can be much more complicated than it initially seemed, and bacteria can become entangled with reflected light on a quantum scale.
The experiment used individual photons, which were reflected between two mirrors separated by a microscopic distance. According to the theory of particle-wave dualism, a photon is the smallest particle of light that exhibits a wave function.
Schematic representation of the experimental setup.
The energy levels in the experimental setup presumably indicate that bacteria have become entangled with light at a quantum level, as some of the individual photons seem to have interacted with organisms and not hit them at the same time.
There is no reason to be skeptical about these results until someone recreates this experiment to track signs of quantum interactions.
In any case, scientists are limited by the amount and quality of data published in scientific work. Also, the energy levels of the bacteria and the mirror setup, in fact, had to be recorded separately to confirm quantum entanglement, which the scientists did not do in this study.
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However, if it successfully passes all the tests, this will be the first evidence that some form of life has been involved in the processes of the world of quantum physics. Usually only subatomic particles are capable of this. Even considering that microscopic life forms are extremely small, this will make a huge difference to science.
Vladimir Guillen
