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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Eccles on neural quantum effects
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>> When something is small enough, quantum effects are guaranteed to
>> be there.  Eccles points out that neurotransmitter vesicles and
>> synaptic gaps are indeed small enough.
>> [...]
>> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)

Wrong. QM (well de Broglie) says that golf ball travelling at 30 mph
has a wavelength.

Better example is Hawking radiation around a black hole. That works on
the event horizon, and that ain't small!

And the Zenner diode?

Gordon.
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