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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Is Life Really Doing?
There's been a big increase in the last few years in the chemistry of c o two and hydrogen. This has made it more respect again to think about, well how can we make them react? In my view at least, well, life is not chemistry in a bucket. It's in a cell. And what's happening in the cell? Well, its the difference the inside and the outside of the cell. The answer is they're producing a charge on that membrane, an electrical charge. As if you shrink yourself down to the size of a molecule, it's equivalent to a bolt of lightning. But really, all that membrane tell as you've got some irons on this side
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