Cells are amazingly crowded as well as amazingly fast. Ditch your misconceptions about them here: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html …
There's an interesting followup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15640750 …
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Science education and popular-science diagrams and metaphors sow severe misconceptions that could be prevented with a few labels and disclaimers.
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What a great comment. Crowded-fast-violent was a major (but very late!) realization for me. Surprised and sad that it hid from me for so long.
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Been thinking about this a lot. Would also add stable to it. You want C-F-V in spades as long as ecosystem is stable.
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Magnificently purple prose!
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> Reality isn't a donkey quietly towing a slowly-moving barge. It's a balloon flapping madly in a hurricane, tethered to an intoxicated panicked mouse clinging to a rope.
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