Always wondered why acid attack works in an instant but there are no other chemicals (to my knowledge) that can heal or improve the skin instantly
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Because damaging something is relatively easy but to “fix” skin you would have to find a way to speed up the healing process so that it is almost instant and that would require your body to do something it just takes time to do
Take a watch and hit it hard with a hammer. It will break instantly. However there is no tool that can instantly repair a watch.
It is similar with skin. Our skin is an ordered collection of individuallt complex cells. It is easy to break if the right chemical is applied, but hard to restore.
think of your skin as a solved rubics cube.
Any random thing you do to it will make it unsolved. really really easy. you can even smash it on the floor.
But making it solved takes time and intentional movements, especially if it has been smashed to the floor.
The same applies to your skin, but your skin is far more complicated than a rubics cube.
The same reason that cutting a paper takes seconds, but making new paper takes a lot more time and effort.
Destroying cells is easy. Getting those cells to rebuild correctly takes time.
One is destruction, the other is building.
Destroying is easy. A few dynamite sticks can bring a whole building down. But it takes months to years to put a building up.
Destroying does not take any meaningful pattern. But building something, like your cells, takes time to replicate because it’s complexity.
lots of good answers here! a good concept to look into is “entropy”- it’s kind of what a lot of the comments are getting at. basically, your skin can be destroyed in lots of different ways- it’s random, and totally depends on where it got damaged, how it got damaged, etc. however, there is only one way for your skin to be skin! as such, from a probability standpoint, it’s just astronomically more likely that any given chemical would somehow break your skin down rather than get it into its hyper-specific normal state.
entropy can also be thought of as disorder! it’s the same reason that there are lots of types of bombs, but nothing really exists that can pick up a bunch of specific stuff off of the ground and neatly condense it into a little package. systems of low entropy (in other words, highly ordered) tend to move towards states of high entropy (highly disordered).
hope this helps!
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