It’s “reasonable to expect that when you go to the ultracold regime there would be no chemistry to speak of,” because atoms should be motionless, said physicist Deborah Jin, leader of one JILA group involved in the experiments. But “this paper says no, there’s a lot of chemistry going on.”
I suppose the question is how fragile memory really is and if there are any quantum effects involved?
While physicists struggle to get quantum computers to function at cryogenic temperatures, other researchers are saying that humble algae and bacteria may have been performing quantum calculations at life-friendly temperatures for billions of years.
“Quantum chemistry” a new window into lives of molecules
I suppose the question is how fragile memory really is and if there are any quantum effects involved?
Roger Penrose is now on related points looking more credible.