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classic electrochemistry has plenty of quantum effects baked into the parameters of the theory, it just doesn't bother to explain them in quantum terms.

I'll have to look up those demonstrations. I know if I were making such a thing I'd stack the deck in favor of a good demonstration and I'd stick to very simple interactions. But if they've given the potential for random useless tangles a fair shake I'll have to rethink my position.

If somebody has made some analog of ATP synthase which operates in this way it would be just fantastic to behold.

Although if I did relax this position, I'd then be in need an explanation for why all of biochemistry feels like it takes place in some kind of cartoon universe. Like, maybe I've failed to put my finger on the reason, but I can't shake the feeling that the world being presented in biology class is just a little too cute to be this one.

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