Q-Entanglement in DNA?
Quantum Entanglement between electrons
in adjacent clouds of their DNA base-twins?
Entanglement is a quantum process in which a single wave function describes the vibration of two separate objects, no matter how far apart.
The positive nuclei of the nucleotide base’s atoms are surrounded by a moving negative cloud of electrons, that creates a dipole and acts as a harmonic oscillator.
When 2 nucleotides bond to form a base-twin, the electron clouds must oscillate in opposite directions to ensure the stability of the structure. What happens to these oscillating phonons, when the base pairs are stacked as a double helix?
In acoustic technology, phonons have negative gravity, meaning levity. Sound waves can rise rather than fall. This allows lifting a 100 ton stone by using specific sound waves.
Since phonons are quantum objects, they can exist in a superposition of states and become entangled, just like other quantum objects, even at room temperature.
Since phonons have a wavelength similar to a DNA helix, standing waves can form. This is called ‘phonon trapping’. It is hard for phonons to escape.
Since each nucleotide in a base-twin is oscillating in opposite directions, in a superposition of states, the overall movement within the helix is zero. From the classical perspective, this cannot happen because the energy required to hold the DNA-helix together does not match up, and as such the helix would vibrate until it shakes itself apart.
From this perspective, the quantum effects are the ones holding the Helix together. Could entanglement influence the way that information is read off a strand of DNA?
Entanglement-assisted Teleportation
A research group transported quantum information between 2 Canary Islands, 90 miles apart. The steps required to read out the teleported quantum state ensure that it didn’t travel faster than the speed of light, which would break causality.
Quantum teleportation uses the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. Although this link is invisible, two entangled photons have correlated opposite polarization states.
Quantum mechanics states that each photon’s polarization remains undecided until one of them is observed/measured. At that time, the polarization snaps into place, even if the entangled pair is separated by millions of miles.
It allows a detour to the physics theorem of no-cloning. That theorem states that a quantum object can never be perfectly copied. This teleportation does not create a copy, it simply shifts the quantum information from one place to another, destroying the original in the process.
