Photosynthesis is WAY Crazier than you Think! 

more important than RNA?

I’ve had many viewers disappointed I didn’t talk about the Calvin cycle more. Maybe it needs its own video?

@@ScienceAsylum From what i see in the comments is more the need for a video on climate change - a physicists view?

​@@narfwhals7843 If someone is genuinely interested in learning about it, I just recommend PBS Hot Mess because they do a much better job than I _ever_ could. (The "physicist view" wouldn't really work because it's a multi-discipline issue. It would have to be a multi-discipline collaboration.)

Watching this video it made me realize that even the simplest life is pretty complicated....and it is hard to imagine the origin of life spontaneously beginning without being in an environment that already has stability and order. Tide pools and hydrothermal undersea vents seem unlikely candidates. No place seems stable enough for a long enough period of time. What popped into my mind was inside of a geode that already has a crystalline internal structure that an organic compound that would eventually become self replicating can use as a template to molecularly organize itself. A geode with a micro fracture that would let water seep in... if it was inside of a tide pool or next to a hydrothermal vent it could provide that stable environment that would produce the first self replicating archaea RNA strand. I just wanted to put that out there incase anyone wants to win a Nobel prize for it...just remember you heard it here first.

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Meanwhile, some IT guys still tries to have a simple hello from at least one girl in his life... But first, let's fix this server I think?

Lol

i should have seen that arriving from a mile distant

Let's get physical.

Except Dr Richard Feynman...

Ah... No, biology need physic help, we need physic to get even deeper on how things work, i mean dude, physic and math... They explain all

William Morton LoL! Comment of the day!

@@cuongdang3304 actually mathematics forbids this that mathematics can explain all things there is an field in mathematics known as "logic theory".

This is the simple biology. To quote one mathematical ecologist I know, "Ecology isn't rocket science, it is far more difficult." Think of the 3 body problem (only 3?), then think of how many microbes are interacting in your gut, how many algae cells are interacting in a pond, start throwing in interacting populations of larger organisms, and then interacting ecosystems. It's the edge of chaos all the way down. By coincidence, I was measuring Chlorophyll and other pigments this morning. 😊

Ackchyually, if we talk about acidity a 'naked' proton is too high in potential energy too exist like that in water. It still forms a bond with the electron pair of oxygen in the water molecule to lower its potential energy, forming these H3O+ molecules.

@@m33LLS What do rogue electrons do?

@@FlailingJunk Zap.

@@FlailingJunk Solvated electrons exist, but difficult to observe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvated_electron

@@FlailingJunk there is also almost never a free electron floating around. it usually is transported either through some Atom-Clusters (Like Iron-sulfur clusters) or in form of a reduced molecule (like FADH2, NADPH, QH2, ...) Many of those electron carrying molecules are also H+ carriers, as they combine the transfer of electrons and protons simultaneously. You can view it like that: The Energy in cell is transferred by ATP, the electrons (reducing equivalents) in form of reduced molecules

wheres your video explaining photosynthesis using tensor calc and differential equations? i would pay to see that

Chris Choi i think it’s left as an exercise in Jackson

@@AndrewDotsonvideos oof

Hey. Great to see you here man :)

Wait, how did you escape papa flammy's basement?

I second that 👌

I couldn't possibly animate that myself 😵

@@ScienceAsylum Hmm, kinda reminds me of when I had to make a flip book animation of cell division in high school biology. Is that kind of quality acceptable? lol

Someone should make an animation of a single electron in a water molecule’a journey through the photosynthesis chemical pathway

If u can make that happen, a ot of crazies would be delighted including myself. Cheers! (fishmilk)

😂😂 Not a terrible guess given this channel.

We need to go... craaaaazy :D

Totally!

Bu ha ha ha, don't mention Crack-torio. It is dangerous, I have stuff to learn for an interview.

I actually got a strong urge to play that game again when he said "Deeper", and then it zoomed in to all the pieces moving around. I'm going to go play it now, actually. I think there is still enough time to get something done in that game before the live stream starts in 22 hours and 26 minutes.

Someone should make a game in a similar style to factorio except you build a biochemical factory inside a cell

@@Adraria8 system requirements: collection of every supercomputer in the world combined for 0.0001x play speed.

It would be great to include the timescales that are involved in the 4 level of events as well, just the geek in me wanting to know.

that's because Nerd Clone keeps interrupting him. you needed a Nerd Clone in your school

I'm sure you could have the teacher show this video in class. You might want to get permission from Nick just in case, but I think he would be thrilled for you to all watch it.

@@WarrenGarabrandt Educational usage is excluded from copyright infringements.

To be fair I suspect Nick put a lot of more effort into this video than 120 min ;)

@@devluz given the animations, script writing & editing, shooting, and editing the video, I would be surprised if it took less than a week to make start to finish.

Yep! Levels of abstraction are so important when trying to understand things that are this complex.

The purpose of science is not solely to provide a complete and definitive explanation of a phenomenon. It is often impossible to fully explain something, as there are always deeper layers that elude investigation. Instead, the primary goals of science are to offer predictions and to apply the effects discovered

Just goes to show how much random chance is involved in the development of something like this. Nature is all like "Well, this kind of works ok. We'll go with this!"

@@ScienceAsylum yep. Evolution works on a basis of "that's good enough". I've seen a couple handwavy explanations that the oxygen inhibition is adaptive, but it makes more sense to me that Rubisco evolved when CO2 was really common and free oxygen didn't exist, so the o2 inhibition effects didn't matter. And it was too difficult to evolve a brand new solution, so plants are stuck with "good enough"

@@ericjpedersen wow, that's actually something i've never thought about, i thought oxygen inhibition has some benefit too, now this is some serious stuff i want to discuss with my friend

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? Terraforming? It's as if plants knew that animal life would need all that Oxygen -- and food -- in the future. Everything randomly worked to set the stage for that huge leap in evolution. "Good enough" for the plant was necessary for the development of animal life. How convenient that plants gather and store all that energy for us. I always thought it strange that plants seem to store so much more energy than actually needed to survive and reproduce. In the grand scheme of things, it's not inefficient at all. "Life will find a way." ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

@@ericjpedersen , you might like a few "primordial particle system" videos I'm making. It's not based on real atoms yet, but I still got emergent behaviour from simple rules. I even got a beating heart and blood flow!

Me too! I would love to see a video about this part which involves quantum mechanics!

this.

Chlorophylls are very effective photoreceptors because they contain networks of alternating single and double bonds. Such compounds are called polyenes. They have very strong absorption bands in the visible region of the spectrum. .... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22535/

Y E S ! :D

I remember seeing a video describing the quantum physics effects involved. Unfortunately I cannot recall it.

j b it also shows why you should drink high pH water (I drink alkaline 8.8) so you will have an abundant supply of electrons, it should make sense now that drinking lotsa low pH fluids like coke or Pepsi (pH 1.8) is not healthy in the long run because your supply of electrons is reduced...

It's impressive... both the process and the discovery.

@Marcos Filho LOL that's the third time I'm seeing this exact comment😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@@shayanmoosavi9139 He's a spammer. I blocked him.

@@ScienceAsylum it was obvious😂😂 I love to poke them.

Support plant rights!

Hum, i think meat machines devour a lot more

#PlantsHaveRights #NoToPlantEating

@@Akto be fair to vegans? I respect vegetarians because they do it in moderation but vegans are just ridiculous. Not even drinking milk or eating eggs or even wearing fur? That's above ridiculous. The nutritions in meat are also essential for the body and plants don't have all of them. You'll do more harm than good by refusing to eat meat. The harming and killing animals argument that they have is just an excuse. They also kill plants by eating them and kill billions of microorganisms simply by breathing and walking.

@@Akto you're confusing vegans with vegetarians. Vegetarians use it in moderation and usually do it for short-term (for example because of health issues or diets). They also do it for long term but they use milk or eggs. They just don't eat meat. And as I said before I respect them because it's their personal choice. Vegans however aren't like that. They don't use anything that is *even remotely* related to animals. They refuse to drink milk and eat eggs. They don't use any animal products either. It's a pointless and ridiculous ideology. I'll answer your points now : 1- you said it yourself that pills are needed. Why do you want to deprive infants of the nutrients that milk and animal products can provide naturally? Just because animals have rights? Doesn't infants have rights as well? Isn't it child abuse if you deprive them of natural things and use chemical pills to help them survive? Do you think that conducting experiments on animals is cruel? Is it any better if we do it on humans? Will you volunteer yourself if you think so? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that we should treat animals badly. I love animals and treat them nicely but giving them more than they deserve is ridiculous. Again, I'm not not saying that we are better than them but we also have the right to live and use the resources that we have. We shouldn't endanger our own species' survival just because other species have the right to live. It's how nature works after all. Nothing personal. Vegans should realize that and stop living in fantasy world. 2- I already answered it above before I answered your points. 3- nice strawman. I didn't say that at all. What I was trying to say is that vegans should realize the irony of their actions if the only reason that they have is animals have rights and we shouldn't kill them. And last of all. Have you ever encountered them? Did they ever tell you that you should be ashamed of yourself for eating meat and you're so cruel to them? Have they insulted you for wearing fur? WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? some chosen people who think that they are superior to others and have the right to tell other people how to live just because of their ridiculous ideology?

Presupposition much?

@@jennamillsap8220 Nope supported purly by empirical scientific evidence, look up emergence.

LOOOOOOL.

@@rejectevolution152 An astounding argument you sure showed me (not). 😑😑

@@WokeandProud Can a codebase exist without intelligence creating it?

Oh yeah! I showed a lot in this video and _still_ abstracted away a lot of information. There's enough info to fill up a two hour video.

@The Science Asylum I love biology, it's complexity and relative ease of research (no need for multi-billion particle accelerators, spacecrafts, enormous super computers and so on) By the way, I wonder if it's possible (and if someone will ever attempt to do it in the future) to create some interactive flow-chart, for instance, of all molecular/chemical processes that happen in human body, all it's systems, at any given time (for example a healthy statistical individual at rest, to make things a little simpler), how they are interconnected, in what order they happen, on which principles so on and so forth. It would be great tool to learn all the beauty of biological workings. Oh boy, that would be a hell of a challenge!

That would be cool. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that.

Some topics I would suggest: Central Dogma, Glucolysis and Krebs Cycle, Evolution

Biology is _much_ better at naming things. You just need to learn the root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Once you know those, the combo words make sense.

True story: when my then-fiancée (now wife of 25 years) and I were interviewing for a wedding photographer, one said that it's three "yes, Dear"s to one "I understand". If you say the same thing every time, it might seem like you're not listening.

Oh yeah. Levels of abstraction are super important for all complex systems, especially computing.

Exactly my thoughts. I mean wouldn't it be obvious that the more CO2 there is the faster plants will grow? Meaning plants limit the amount of CO2 in the air right? Too much and they will consume it too fast no?

@@mairisberzins8677 Faster, yes, but not "too fast." They basically adjust their growth rate based on the supply. Because they use passive transpiration, they don't actively "pull" co2 out of the atmosphere, not like us animals going out and hunting food... they just absorb whatever floats by. So they can't really crash the c02 levels to zero. There will just be less, and smaller, plant life if there's not enough of it.

@@DFPercush No, no. What i meant was that higher CO2 concentration leads to faster growth. And if thats the case more CO2 will be transformed into organic matter. Therefore reduce the amount of CO2 in the air. THis would then create an equilibrium between the amount of CO2 release and that consumed by plants.

@@DFPercush Kind of like ammonia synthesis. The more N2 and H2 you put in the reactor the faster they will make NH3. And if you somehow get rid of that NH3 even more will be formed. Analogy to this would be CO2 instead of being released back in the air as a part of "breathing' by plants but instead stored as biomass in a solid state.

Technically yes, but not on the planetary scale as there is another problem. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and hence higher concentration of it in the atmosphere leads to hotter temperatures. RuBisCo, the enzyme plants use to capture CO2 is less efficient at higher temperatures. And, this drop in efficiency is faster than increase in efficiency of photosynthesis from increased CO2 concentration. Simply speaking, increase in CO2 levels are not enough to even compensate for efficiency drop due to hotter temperature. This is why it is good to pump CO2 into a greenhouse with externally controlled temperature system, but not in the atmosphere.

One day no one will be able to understand computers, but computers will be able to understand All living beings.

I'm kinda the same, I'll stick to computer science, math, chemistry and physics because Biology is one hell of a subject.

@@adamz8314 nope. We created computers so we understand them. They'll never be able to understand us unless we say so. We have complete control over them. The movies about intelligent robots attacking mankind is purely fictional and will never happen unless we program them to do so and if anything goes wrong we simply unplug them.

LOL😂😂😂 One day it'll be complete by physics and it'll no longer be random and messy. Just like chemistry that is becoming complete by physics and it's less of a mess now. Physics is the ultimate science field.