I still remember the time when I used to play with the sun rays, actually with the dust particles. I was a small child then. I used to love the random movement of the dust particles and I thought it was getting pushed around the all powerful sun rays.
Well evidently it was not smart thinking.
Later on in the school that there are theories explaining these phenomenon. I also learned that a Roman named Lucretius actually observed the phenomenon eons ago ( like 60BC) . To be honest , I was quite surprised this simple thing even had a sobriquet of being a phenomenon. Nonetheless. we were introduced to the world of Brownian motion. Way back in time around 1827, Robert Brown hit upon this phenomenon. In his case he was looking at pollen in water, darting around madly. Unlike me, he thought there must be some mechanism which is making these particles move around in the water. This quite a innocuous looking phenomenon was explained as a result of collision of the fast moving molecules and atoms of the water. This was later on understood as the transport mechanism of energy between the molecules and atom.
So this innocuous looking phenomenon was one of the fundamental pillars of sub-atomic behaviors and quantum mechanics. It explained not only how energy is transferred , but also how it is created in the first instance.
I read that in our body, there is a constant cycle of creation and destruction, howsoever morbid it sounds. There are over 10,000 cells are being refreshed, meaning they die and new ones are created. And we all know that it is being created by complex chemical function orchestrated by the DNA and RNA. I will not go into the details of it. But what was intriguing, where is the energy coming from. And J. C Ventre raised the veil from my eyes. Brownian motion was the answer. According to him 'Life is driven by Brownian motion', 'from the kinesin protein trucks that pull tiny sacks of chemicals along microtubules to the spinning ATP synthesis'. Now point to note that, this activity is very sensitive to temperature. Low temperature will not allow enough movement and higher will result in uncontrollable movement. Hence, the body needs to be within certain temperature range to be alive.
Now we know why fever makes us miserable.
Well evidently it was not smart thinking.
Later on in the school that there are theories explaining these phenomenon. I also learned that a Roman named Lucretius actually observed the phenomenon eons ago ( like 60BC) . To be honest , I was quite surprised this simple thing even had a sobriquet of being a phenomenon. Nonetheless. we were introduced to the world of Brownian motion. Way back in time around 1827, Robert Brown hit upon this phenomenon. In his case he was looking at pollen in water, darting around madly. Unlike me, he thought there must be some mechanism which is making these particles move around in the water. This quite a innocuous looking phenomenon was explained as a result of collision of the fast moving molecules and atoms of the water. This was later on understood as the transport mechanism of energy between the molecules and atom.
So this innocuous looking phenomenon was one of the fundamental pillars of sub-atomic behaviors and quantum mechanics. It explained not only how energy is transferred , but also how it is created in the first instance.
I read that in our body, there is a constant cycle of creation and destruction, howsoever morbid it sounds. There are over 10,000 cells are being refreshed, meaning they die and new ones are created. And we all know that it is being created by complex chemical function orchestrated by the DNA and RNA. I will not go into the details of it. But what was intriguing, where is the energy coming from. And J. C Ventre raised the veil from my eyes. Brownian motion was the answer. According to him 'Life is driven by Brownian motion', 'from the kinesin protein trucks that pull tiny sacks of chemicals along microtubules to the spinning ATP synthesis'. Now point to note that, this activity is very sensitive to temperature. Low temperature will not allow enough movement and higher will result in uncontrollable movement. Hence, the body needs to be within certain temperature range to be alive.
Now we know why fever makes us miserable.
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