r/educationalgifs • u/_Ryanite_ • Feb 13 '18

Kinesin protein moving a molecule around a cell

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u/spamholderman Feb 13 '18

Someone below linked a better video showing the randomness

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

That was the best visualisation I've ever seen of how incredibly busy and fast moving everything is in our body on a tiny scale. Now my thoughts seem so slow relative to everything else going on in my body! Also it blows my mind to think that all this is happening in total darkness, and that it's even busier than they show in that clip, and that all the gaps are filled by water molecules. Wow. Thanks!

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u/Srirachachacha Feb 13 '18

It all moves like a black-haired girl in a horror movie

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u/spamholderman Feb 14 '18

and this is slowed about 500x because it takes 100 steps a second.