A family member of mine was a physics one of the things he studied was cristal formation, specifically focusing on how the shape of a cristal is affected by its components and impurities. He sadly is no longer with us, but he would have loved to try and help solve this problem. Rest in peace, old man.
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Agent based modeling captures the dynamic interactions. This is a typical energy minimization network with a dynamic equilibrium. The patterns have long-term correlations due to their fractal dynamics, meaning they display scale invariance, universality, etc. Parameter estimation can narrow down principal parameters for the models. Following this, id test the model within a culture of xenobots by controlling said parameters.
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And for the third, most close up photo they chose the most unorganized structure, while talking about organization, alright.
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Wait till he finds out about ant...plant and mycelium and myc factors this is child's play in comparison
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Please check the fact about the 6 state turing machine that halts iff there is a counterexample for collatz
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Still it is largely ineffective against antibiotics resistance bacteria 😞
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"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck
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Quanta Magazine
Biofilms lead lives of liminality. Just a few cells thick, these layered communities of microbes anchor themselves to solid surfaces at interfaces — between rocks and salt water on slimy rocks in tide pools, where plants meet dirt in the root systems of plants, or on the saliva-covered surface of your teeth. Amalgamations of single cells, biofilms grow and develop into unified life forms that can split back into their component cells under duress. Biofilms, then, are somehow both unicellular and multicellular — and simultaneously neither.
Biofilms have emergent properties: traits that appear only when a system of individual items interacts. It was this emergence that attracted the biophysicist Peter Yunker to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics — the study of materials that can be structurally altered — he is interested in understanding how the interactions between individual bacteria result in the higher-order structure of a biofilm.
As cells divide and a biofilm grows, it doesn’t simply expand outward. What starts as a flat, smooth layer of cells stretches and pulses. Strange, sticky shapes appear as the bacteria reassemble into ridges and depressions that warp and buckle, almost as if the collective is breathing. In recent years, researchers have been studying the role of shape and geometry in biofilms and how physical laws, such as those governing cellular metabolism and the diffusion of nutrients, determine how biofilms grow and thrive.
🧫 Keep reading: www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofilms-strange-shap…
🎨 Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter
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