https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0110083/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035474urn:hackerpapers:mention:quant-ph_0110083:10035474Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:02:28 GMT<p>The abstract maybe a tad general, but the paper specifically refers to the movement of a single proton : &quot; As initially proposed by Delbruck et al. (1935) and Schrodinger (1944) and Watson and Crick (1953), spontaneous mutations are initiated by quantum jump events such as tautomeric shifts in single protons of DNA bases.&quot; You reference catalysts and there are some indications this is a quantum tunneling phenomena : Here is a talk by Professor Nigel Scrutton of the University of Manchester who has many papers on this, Quantum effects in biological catalysis…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0110083/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph