Does ecology reach all the way down to the subatomic scale?
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 07:32
in Biology & Nature
Imagine you could stop being human-sized for a while and shrink down to the size of a bacterium, roughly one-millionth of your current stature. At this scale, you would stop being bound by gravity and instead discover that viscosity is the dominant factor, making the air feel more like swimming through a gloopy swamp.