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"As a result of all this random motion, a typical enzyme can collide with something to react with 500,000 times every second. Watching the video, you might wond
by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
"As a result of all this random motion, a typical enzyme can collide with something to react with 500,000 times every second. Watching the video, you might wonder how the different pieces just happen to move to the right place. In reality, they are covering so much ground in the cell so fast that they will be in the "right place" very frequently just by chance."
That's the problem with those visualizations - they aim to give one an intuition of what's happening, but in fact they mislead. I wonder how it's possible to give an intuition of the reality, when in addition to the crazy statistical noisyness of the scene, those molecules are also in quantum superpositions.