It's this "quantum entanglement" which should be harnessed to allow us to "commute" to work without leaving the comfort of our own homes. Employers would then only have to worry about how "entangled" their employees would become with one another!

I am wondering about something else also - thinking about structure and organization of matter like this article about DNA and quantum effects ... I read an article recently about 'Buckey Balls' found in space (buckminsterfullerene) http://news.discovery.com/space/buckyballs-carbon-chemistry.html What I am driving at, is it would appear to me that there is a sort of order that develops in the universe as stepping-stones of molecular chemistry born in the stars ... do these basic chemical processes later form a foundation and building blocks for higher forms of organization which, in turn, develop into life and consciousness - later, perhaps, as sentient beings?

A more serious reply to Leonard's comment about processes in the universe. If string theory has anything to do with it then the snapping in and out of existence of matter in the "vacuum of space" may represent the true origins of life, as he suggests. We lack empirical evidence of this since we cannot measure effects on this small of a scale. He's right though...other forms of "intelligent life" may be coexisting with us and we'd be completely unaware of their existence if they so desired.

It is just that as I look around, Bru, that I see life and intelligence everywhere, here on this planet anyway - the plants, bugs and furry little creatures have motion, intelligence and reproduction of like kind. I also wonder about 'systems theory' in that the smallest property within a system must be a property of the whole larger system. I think that the whole universe may be alive and that man is no 'special creation', but a part of the whole living system which we see as the universe.

i wouldent consider myself smart.. nor dumb, but in all of science's experiments and answers we have never ever gotton something from nothing ? the question infact is were did these little systems come from ? random quantum fluctation

(quantum effects) or God ? that is the real contriversial issue. i personaly belive that it was quantum effects but who put it there in the first place ? i belive it is something science simply cannot explain, God.