Brandeis researchers report in a new article in Science that they have taken the first step in creating a self-propelling liquid. The finding holds out the promise of developing an entirely new class of fluids that can flow without human or mechanical effort. One possible real-world application: Oil might be able to move through a pipeline without needing to be pumped.
The researchers work at Brandeis' Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), part of a National Science Foundation initiative to create a revolutionary new class of materials and machines made from biological components.
The breakthrough reported in the journal Science was achieved by reproducing in the lab the incredibly complex series of processes that allow cells to change shape and adapt to their environment. Cells can do this because the building blocks of its scaffolding—hollow cylindrical tubes called microtubules—are capable of self-transformation. The microtubules grow, shrink, bend and stretch, altering the cell's underlying structure.
The Brandeis researchers extracted microtubules from a cow's brain and placed them in a watery solution. They then added two other types of molecules found in cells—kinesin and adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
The microtubules aligned parallel to each other. A kinesin molecule came between them, connecting them like a tie between rail tracks.
Using the ATP as a fuel source, the kinesin began moving. Its top went in one direction, the bottom in another. The microtubules slid away from each other, and the structure broke apart.
But the microtubules didn't remain free-floating for long. New kinesin came along and bound each to a new partner.
As these microtubules came together then separated, amazing, swirling patterns emerged in the fluid. And for the first time ever, the Brandeis team was able to get the swirls to move in the same direction, creating a "coherent flow" that pushed the surrounding liquid forward as well.
This microtubule-kinesin-ATP reaction is the same one that goes on in cells, except in cells it is much more complicated. Yet the much more simplified model created by the Brandeis scientists achieved a similar effect. Essentially they harnessed the power of nature to create a microscopic machine capable of pumping fluid.
On a similar vein... look up Pollack and EZ water.
The blood moves the heart?
On a tangent - but with regard to the dismantling of a false model:
From 'science' we may uncover a very different model than the ego-technologism of the intent to make life in its own image, or indeed the sci-lie mesmerism of social and global state control.
The gut's true role in our function is another example of reverse thinking.
The danger of a model - accepted and acted upon as true - is incalculable - yet beneath all is the mind that holds or discards false definition in favour of a wish or a true willing joy.
The electrical nature of the manifest Universe, is not lees or other than the mind of focus within frequencies of resonance. BUT - when reading the term 'mind' here, mind that you don't confuse it with the limited and limiting idea of coercive control - which SEEMS real under the denial, blanking or forgetting of true feeling awareness - that can be called or assigned names - yet is outside the framing of time and space.
The power of desire to align the support of its unfolding is inherent to life - but the wish to 'go it alone' makes life a slave and an enemy - upon which protection rackets suck the life out to make a hollow shell through which to make fantasy gratifications.
The control-freak or power-addicted 'mind' asserts and assumes itself the DOER and interprets all things as separate and competing forces - instead of the whole supporting all the parts. The illusion of control is the wish to 'create' reality. The first result of which is to lose one's own by becoming subject to one's own making. Fragmentation amidst incoherance.
Whatever else the body is - is the embodiment of Idea - the form that identifies and makes tangible. But it became the mask and means to project a sense of identity at odds with itself - as the idea of conflicting or oppositional self given form.
Awakening is a reintegrative release of the false into the acceptance of the true.
Breathe and be breathed. If you were really alone you would have no source or support. But the support for what you accept as true of you for you is unconditional love - for reality is not coercive upon you - though it must seem so to the demand it be different than it is. The image or model of self is never more than a framework of perspective and experience.