{"id":12298,"date":"2014-12-13T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2014-12-13T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T22:19:48","slug":"slow-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/13\/slow-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch and savor <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88829079\">this remarkable video<\/a> by Daniel Stoupin. It shows tiny marine animals in motion &#8212; motions that are typically so slow that we would never notice, here enormously sped-up so that humans can appreciate them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88829079?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88829079\">Slow Life<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/danielstoupin\">Daniel Stoupin<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found it at <a href=\"http:\/\/metazoan.net\/9-being\/\">this blog post<\/a> by Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher of biology.  He notes that some kinds of basic processes, like breathing, are likely common to creatures that live at all different timescales; but others, like reaching out and grasping things, might not be open to creatures in the slow domain. Which raises the question: what kinds of motion are available to slow life that we fast-movers can&#8217;t experience?<\/p>\n<p>Not all timescales are created equal. In the real world, the size of atoms sets a fundamental length, and chemical reactions set fundamental times, out of which everything larger is composed. We will never find a naturally-occurring life form, here on Earth or elsewhere in the universe, whose heart beats once per zeptosecond. But who knows? Maybe there are beings whose &#8220;hearts&#8221; beat once per millennium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch and savor this remarkable video by Daniel Stoupin. It shows tiny marine animals in motion &#8212; motions that are typically so slow that we would never notice, here enormously sped-up so that humans can appreciate them. Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo. I found it at this blog post by Peter Godfrey-Smith, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}