Are Marine Algae smarter than us??

Until now, there wasn't much to the lowly marine algae, just a simple ubiquitous marine plant existing passively, serving to feed other marine organisms higher up on the food chain. To the suprise of University of Toronto scientists, these algae have managed to leverage processes in quantum mechanics to efficiently convert light into biological energy to be stored and later used.

How long have they've been doing this you say- for around 2 billion years. To even further bend your brain, they do it in such a way that light has to traverse a multitude of paths at once. It's like going to work from home-you just don't take one path, you take all paths. Talk about being at 2 places at once. In the quantum world, light travels much more efficiently if it travels along a multitude of paths simultaneously.

How these organisms figured this out early on is a scientific wonder. It’s only in the latter half of the 20th century that the human race has even begun to understand these processes. Even great thinkers such as Albert Einstein doubted whether such processes existed. He referred to it as “Spooky action at a distance”.
Yet, here’s a simple marine algae doing it. Maybe, they are smarter than us. They’ve certainly been successful at it for 2 billion years. Do you think the human race will be as successful and prolific in 2 billion years??
See web site below for the article and podcast.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100203131356.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/09-10/qq-2010-02-06.html