Determination of When an Outcome is Actualised in a Quantum Measurement using DNA - Photolyase System

TL;DR

This paper proposes a biochemical method using DNA-Photolyase systems to empirically determine the exact moment when quantum measurement outcomes become observable, offering a new perspective on the quantum measurement problem.

Contribution

It introduces a biochemical approach to identify the timing of outcome actualization in quantum measurements through DNA-Photolyase interactions.

Findings

Photolyase binding indicates photon emission detection.

Chemical kinetics can retrodict measurement timing.

Provides an empirical method to study quantum measurement timing.

Abstract

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.