How small is small?

Size Matters...

When we speak about mitochondria which are loaded with electrons and protons we are engaging the physics of the so-called subatomic world. We need to understand how size links to thermodynamics. This is why the physics of elementary particles and their interactions with light are important to a mitochondria. When things shrink people understanding tends to shrink as well. Quantum physics confounds people because the "small world" of chloroplast and mitochondria do not acts as the world we observe. To illustrate this point, consider the size of an atomic nucleus is approximately 100,000 times less than the size of a water molecule. Now understand, a water molecule is smaller than the visible light wavelength in a photon by a factor of 1000. So even using our best optical microscopes we couldn’t hope to see a molecule of water, let alone an atomic nucleus. Thus there is an obvious problem of even adequately visualizing the objects in question.

In gratitude,

William Malcolm

IntuitiveWellnessNow