Close-Up View of DNA Replication

Re:Close-Up View of DNA Replication by jcims on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:31AM (#14593413)

I've been having this same thought lately, about the scales of time that exist below/inside what we perceive. I agree that smaller/simpler brains probably run on a higher clock speed than those that are larger or more complex, and that impacts perception. But even within the fastest little minds, the rate at which chemical reactions take place or electrical signals propagate make them seem glacially slow in comparison.

I was actually thinking about putting a little video together about these scales of time, with the video containing nothing more than a person's blink reaction slowed down 5,000x.

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Re:Close-Up View of DNA Replication by zipwitch on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:09AM (#14593902)

I wonder if we allow enough for this in our search for alien life? Are their other life-forms out there somewhere whose timescales are radically different from ours? How would we find or communicate with them if there were?

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Re:Close-Up View of DNA Replication by bawana on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:27AM (#14594423)

like forests? I cannot forget the statement in 'Avatar' describing the 'tree of life'. How is it that memories have not been encoded in massively networked aspen forests? Or may they're there and we just havent looked. And with large encoded memory stores, manipulation of that data is what we call conciousness.

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