One of the major misunderstandings even many biologists have about how a cell works is a complete misconception of how jam-packed and dynamic a living cell actu

One of the major misunderstandings even many biologists have about how a cell works is a complete misconception of how jam-packed and dynamic a living cell actually is. See the following images for a pretty simulation of what a cell actually "looks" like on the inside: http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/books/MoL2figures/Figure8.2-reduced.jpg http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/books/MoL2figures/Fig... Webpage with more info: http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2010/08/30/the_crowded_cell/ http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2010/08/30/the_crowded_ce... Physicists/chemists often make fun of biology as "blob-logy" because we tend to draw biological systems as Blob-1 interacting with Blob-2 which leads to a change in Blob-3. It's a very useful abstraction, but it's also limited. In reality all these blobs are jammed together and moving around, creating a lot of random noise in the system. This is because every component in a cell is working at nano-scale (proteins are to a 1st approximation about 5nm in diameter). The rules are different at that scale, we don't experience anything like them in our daily lives. In other words, the components of the cell aren't doing chemistry at a bench, passing the results of one reaction to the next reaction, it's more like doing chemistry in a mosh pit. Biology has developed coping mechanisms for this insanity, but analogies drawn with things like computer processors and macro-world items are going to be somewhat wrong because of the inherent differences in scale.