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Bacteria as Quantum Clocks

Atanas Todorov Atanasov1
  • 1 Department of Physics and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

Abstract

In this study we have investigated the biological application of Wigner’s inequalities for smallest quantum clock. We have shown that the mass, size and doubling time of bacteria satisfied the Wigner’s inequalities for quantum clock. Data on 17 bacteria with mass 1×10-17 -1×10-15 kg, size 0.3-50µm and doubling time 1×103-1×105 seconds confirmed the hypothesis of Pešić that possibly the living bacteria appear to be the smallest quantum clocks in the Nature.

Physics International
Volume 8 No. 1, 2017, 1-7

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/pisp.2017.1.7

Submitted On: 27 June 2017 Published On: 6 September 2017

How to Cite: Atanasov, A. T. (2017). Bacteria as Quantum Clocks. Physics International, 8(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3844/pisp.2017.1.7

Open AccessCopyright: © 2017 Atanas Todorov Atanasov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Time
  • Quantum Clock
  • Wigner Inequality
  • Bacteria