Is there a biology of quantum information?

BioSystems

Volumn 55, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 39-46

  Matsuno, Koichiro ^a   Paton, Raymond C ^b  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actin; Energy time uncertainty relation; Internal measurement; Microphysics; Quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ENERGY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME;

EID: 0034020905     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(99)00081-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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