Did you know that your cells have a pulse, just like your heart? And that, no matter what animal or vegetable you may be, you’re alotted approximately one and one half billion pulses in your lifetime, and no more?
The tiny hummingbird pulses fast; its life is short. The majestic elephant’s cells pulse more slowly; its life is considerably longer.
And a physicist has developed a formula that explains this phenomenon.
Read this fascinating NPR piece by Robert Krulwich (from January 2013), which discusses the work of physicist Geoffrey West, and you’ll probably learn much more than you ever knew before about the very nature of being alive: