Quarks and Bees and Cosmic Dances

I don't pretend to understand this fully, but how wonderful! The well-known honey dance of the honeybee is found to interact with quantum fields. What if the common little brown honeybee held the earth together?
From neuroquantology.com

QUOTE Shipman is not, however, content to play Kepler. "You can look at this idea and say, `That's a nice geometric description of the dance, very pretty,' and leave it like that," she says. "But there is more to it. When you have a physical phenomenon like the honeybee dance, and it follows a mathematical structure, you have to ask what are the physical laws that are causing it to happen."At this point Shipman departs from safely grounded scholarship and enters instead the airy realm of speculation. The flag manifold, she notes, in addition to providing mathematicians with pure joy, also happens to be useful to physicists in solving some of the mathematical problems that arise in dealing with quarks, tiny particles that are the building blocks of protons and neutrons. And she does not believe the manifold's presence both in the mathematics of quarks and in the dance of honeybees is a coincidence. Rather she suspects that the bees are somehow sensitive to what's going on in the quantum world of quarks, that quantum mechanics is as important to their perception of the world as sight, sound, and smell. UNQUOTE

New Theory of Everything

If you have ever sat up reading books like God and the New Cosmology, The Tao of Physics or The Dancing Wu Li Masters, listen up. If you follow the attempts of certain physicists, in the off duty hours, to discover a theory beyond quantum physics, this might just be for you. It does bend my brain pretty far, but, hey, that's good for you!

The Theory - A soliloquy on the ultimate theory

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“We think space and time are important because that's the kind of monkeys we are.”
Terence Rudolph Imperial College London

Quantum weirdness is even stranger than previously thought. Duuuuuude......religions all over the world have a concept for "sentient light", don't they?

from Nature.com