{"id":982,"date":"2006-09-29T20:43:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T01:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/09\/29\/the-cell-is-like-tron\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T03:08:57","slug":"the-cell-is-like-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/the-cell-is-like-tron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cell is Like Tron!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s the impression I got from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiodaily.com\/main\/searchlist\/6850.html\">quite spectacular animation<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/holy-sht-maybe-biology-doesnt-suck.html\">Shtetl-Optimized<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Inner Life of the Cell Animation\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_wJyUtbn0O5Y\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wJyUtbn0O5Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJyUtbn0O5Y\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M13S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2011-07-11T15:39:29Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_wJyUtbn0O5Y\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wJyUtbn0O5Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Inner Life of the Cell Animation<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wJyUtbn0O5Y\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wJyUtbn0O5Y\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Inner Life of the Cell Animation\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"https:\/\/xvivo.com\/examples\/the-inner-life-of-the-cell\/ Learn more about this animation on our website Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell, illustrating mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus. This award winning piece was the first topic in a series of animations XVIVO is creating for Harvard&#039;s educational website BioVisions at Harvard. http:\/\/www.xvivo.net http:\/\/multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, real biological molecules would be quite a bit more densely packed, and there would be a lot less smooth motion and a lot more jaggedy fluctuation. Either that, or there&#8217;s an awful lot of spooky-action-at-a-distance going on inside cells.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;re done being amazed, you could do worse than check out the lecture notes for Scott Aaronson&#8217;s class, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/index.htm\">Quantum Computing Since Democritus<\/a>. And when you&#8217;re done with those, here are some videos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vega.org.uk\/video\/subseries\/8\">Feynman lecturing on QED<\/a> in New Zealand. (Thanks to Ed Copeland for reminding me of these.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s the impression I got from this quite spectacular animation. (Via Shtetl-Optimized.) Admittedly, real biological molecules would be quite a bit more densely packed, and there would be a lot less smooth motion and a lot more jaggedy fluctuation. Either that, or there&#8217;s an awful lot of spooky-action-at-a-distance going on inside cells. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}