Wednesday 7 November 2012

Physics isn't the only science

We have plenty of seminars and meetings at University to encourage to keep and interest in other areas of Astrophysics and Physics. It's through this knowledge of other disciplines that links and connections can be made, producing new areas of research involving the whole department.

However one also has to remember that there are other sciences out there other than Physics! So this brief post is dedicated to the Science of Biology. To illustrate the incredible nature of Biology I present to you this video made by Harvard University (from what I can gather).

Video from Youtube, courtesy of Harvard University.

This incredible video is an artists simulation of the inside of a cell, though based on real research and knowledge. I had to have the various things in the video explained, but a brief explanation is as follows.

The video shows the inner working of a single cell. Your body is made up of over 50 trillion cells, which is incredible enough, without knowing what happens inside them. Most of the little things you can see in the video are proteins, all with various different jobs to make your cells do what they're supposed to, in turn making your organs perform as a whole. 

It's these kind of videos which really make science and research appealing to people, yet I never saw this at school or college; it took till my PhD in another discipline to first see this video! It's a shame, but if you search hard enough gems like this can be found and hopefully shared to everyone else!


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