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- **Event Name**: Surrey Speaks Quantum - Does Life Need Quantum Mechanics?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for Surrey Speaks Quantum, a captivating lecture series exploring the famously puzzling nature of quantum physics.About this EventLecture Synopsis:'Does Life Need Quantum Mechanics?' is the fourth lecture in the Surrey Speaks Quantum Series, and we are excited to be joined by our next speaker, Jim Al-Khalili; Theoretical physicist, author and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey.How do living organisms maintain their highly ordered low entropy states? And might quantum mechanics play a role in this? Quantum biology is an exciting new field of interdisciplinary research, bringing together theoretical physics, computational chemistry and molecular biology, but it remains speculative and, some might say, even controversial. However, growing evidence is showing that non-trivial quantum effects, such as long-lived coherence, quantum entanglement and tunnelling may well play a functionally important role inside living cells. For example, enzymes utilise quantum tunnelling to accelerate biochemical reactions, while plants and bacteria make use of quantum coherence in photosynthesis to determine the most efficient route for photons from sunlight to reach the reaction centre where they can be converted into chemical energy. More intriguingly, it appears that some animals use quantum entanglement – what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance” – to ‘see’ the earth’s magnetic field for directional information. In this talk Professor Al-Khalili will trace the origins of the field back to the 1930s, and examine how fragile quantum mechanical mechanisms previously thought to be confined to highly rarefied laboratory environments at temperatures close to absolute zero, might manage to play a role in the wet, warm biological world. Professor Al-Khalili will also report on the latest results of a research group at Surrey showing the importance of proton tunnelling in DNA and how this can lead to genetic mutations.Agenda?: 06:15 PM - 07:00 PMDrinks Reception?: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PMLecture by Professor Jim Al-Khalili?: 08:00 PM - 08:30 PMAudience Q&amp;A
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- **city**: Guildford
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Rik Medlik Building (University of Surrey)
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