1999/03/10 by Dipankar Home, Home, Dipankar, Rajagopal Chattopadhayaya +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Light effects on plants #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9903036
9 Pages,LaTeX,Revised Communicating author: Rajagopal Chattopadhyay, [email protected]
openalex publication_date 1999/03/10 · arxiv created 1999/06/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The biochemical attachment of photolyase to ultraviolet (uv) absorbed DNA molecules provides a method for registering whether a source has emitted photons. Here using laws of chemical kinetics and related experimental methods we argue that the instant after which this information becomes discernible can be empirically determined by retrodicting from relevant data when the photolyase binding to uv-absorbed DNA molecules has started occuring. Thus an empirically investigable twist is provided to the quantum measurement problem.