This has... implications
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Photosynthesis from infrared
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Re: Photosynthesis from infrared
From what I gathered on a quick skim of the paper, they're photosynthesizing from light at 7—800 nm and 4—500 nm, just that they're getting these photons (in tiny numbers) from the tail of a Black Body radiation curve which is peaked in the infrared.plodder wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:50 pm This has... implications
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Also, the paper is from 2005 so all those implications have already been implicated I assume.
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Re: Photosynthesis from infrared
Still nuts mind you
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Nuts in an impressive biology way, rather than a complete violation of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics way.
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Re: Photosynthesis from infrared
So if life on earth originated in deep sea hydrothermal vents, could this be the original form of photosynthesis, and the evolutionary route to other ways of life?