Photosynthesis the scientific ability
plant life has to use sunlight or photon energy to convert carbon dioxide and
water into glucose and oxygen can seem magical! But if Quantum Mechanics
represents the physics of ‘time’ as a process of continuous energy exchange
formed by the spontaneous absorption and emission of light. With time and space
as emergent properties with the future coming into existence photon by photon
within the reference frame and relative to the atoms of an individual plant it
can seem logical!
Photon energy forms the movement of
positive and negative charge and this is basically what we are seeing in
photosynthesis. We are seeing the future unfolding with each new photon
electron coupling with the movement of positive and negative charge relative to
the structure of the plant. This happens when water molecules are split to
forms positive charged protons in the form of hydrogen ions and the by-product oxygen
that we breathe!
Photosynthesis as a light dependent
reactions starts when individual photons normally from the Sun are absorbed in
the plant by pigments called ‘chlorophyll’. When chlorophyll gets hit by a
light photon an electron absorbs the energy and gets energized. This is the
technical term for electrons gaining energy (the potential to do work).
The entire trick of photosynthesis is to
form a concentration gradient between positive and negative charge. This is
done by what is called an ‘electron transport chain’ in which energized
electrons lose their energy in a series of reactions that capture the energy
necessary to keep life living as a process over a period of time.
As the electron moves along the electron
transport chain it moves through proteins and every time it goes through one of
these proteins it is pumping positive charged protons in the form of hydrogen
ions to the inside. Basically what it is doing is building up positive charge
on the inside charging them up like a battery so that the energy can be used in
future processes.
This positive charge is then used to
provide energy for the light-independent
reactions of photosynthesis forming chemical reactions that
convert carbon dioxide and
other compounds into glucose.
This is called the Calvin cycle and it uses the energy
from short-lived electronically excited carriers to convert inorganic
carbon (carbon dioxide) and water into organic compounds that
can be used by the organism for growth (and by animals that feed on it).
This theory does
not change our understanding of how photosynthesis works, but by giving us an objective
understanding of quantum mechanics it gives us a more logical understanding of why
the process of photosynthesis works within the larger picture of physics.
Even though part of this process can take place in
the absence of sunlight, because the photon of quantum mechanics is the carrier
of the electromagnetic force there is always photon energy with the movement of
electric charge.
Electric charge
in an innate part of all matter and in this theory the future is unfolding with
each new photon oscillation with the movement of that charge. The forward momentum of light forms the
forward flow of ‘time’ for each object, life form or process.
This theory is
based on just two simple postulates:
1. Is that the spontaneous absorption and emission of light represented by the
quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function forms the forward
passage of time itself with the future coming into existence photon by photon
with each new photon electron coupling or dipole moment.
2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the
wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event that we can
interact with turning the possible into the actual!
This theory explains an interactive participatory Universe. The wave-particle
duality of light is acting like the bits or zeros and ones of a computer. This
forms a blank canvas for life to form its own future relative to its position
and the energy and momentum of its own actions. The Planck constant of quantum mechanics
represents a constant of action in the process that we see and feel as time! This
is a process of continuous energy exchange continuous change or what I like to
call continuous creation! The spontaneous
absorption and emission of light is forming an Arrow of Time for each reference
frame. Photon energy cascades down forming greater degree of freedom in each
reference frame for the increase in entropy. Please share on Facebook and
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