These ideas may be more important to you than you think. In fact, says Dr. Dimitri Nanopoulos, they may help explain how you think. Physicists use quantum mechanics to analyze and describe the relationship between matter and energy at the most elementary levels. Nanopoulos says equations based on quantum mechanics and string theory that he and Drs. John Ellis and Nick Mavromatos of CERN developed to describe the dynamics of information in black holes appear to describe equally well what goes on with microtubules, microscopic protein cylinders inside brain cells called neurons, as the brain processes and stores information.
Microtubules are biological conduits that allow chemical communication within cells.
These new ways of looking at brain functioning could have important implications for understanding how memories become implanted in the chemicals of our brains, how the brain responds to outside stimuli and the deterioration of memory associated with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Nanopoulos notes. This is something that perhaps explains or underlies what they have described. 281.363.7914 Sign up here to receive HARC press releases. All rights reserved. The information released herein does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of research sponsors.