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SO ENDS this first of two weekends considering modular metabolism and its implications. Modularity is a widespread, efficient and interesting phenomena in living systems, operating at all levels from genes to ecosystems. One can imagine modular systems clipping onto an invisible underlying pegboard driven by the laws of physics and mathematics, even the nonliving world, with its underlying orderliness, so all of creation is pegged onto this undulating frame, an ecology of numbers. But I do digress and speculate! Forgive me. View in LinkedIn

SIXTY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. “Over the past centuries the ability to observe and collect data representing the physical world has been one of the great accomplishments of mankind. This includes observations ranging from the diminutive to the unimaginably large. Everything we know and everything we can possibly know is constrained in size and distance by two boundaries. The upper limit is given by the size of the observable universe with a comoving diameter of about 10(27) meters. The lower limit is the Planck length, at which the structure of space‐time is dominated by quantum effects, of 10(-35) meters.” https://lnkd.in/dSy9iPW View in LinkedIn