How exactly do muscles’ ability to apply force emerge from chemistry / physics. I “know” pretty vaguely that the elasticity of muscle tissue is fundamental to how it works, but how does the body actually chemically create that elasticity, and what phenomenon of chemistry is elasticity emergent from?
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Muscle cells have the biggest protein in the human body let’s goooo! That’s no small feat the muscle cells have a spring protein that are long! They’re being pulled by both ends. Ok so like a bunch of those right and you wrap them in this conductive thin little like burrito. Ok so what’s conductive and goes on burritos? Sodium! Bam you drop a few of those Na particles down an ion channel from the brain. Think of it like donkey cong in one of those cart levels and he’s an ion he’s donkey cong he’s all charged up and shit just traveling down the rail cart level just riding around. Eventuality from the brain you can ride the cart turn right at the spine all the way down town to the muscle BAM giant spring proteins activate!!!!!!!!!! Muscle contracts. Where did this sorcery energy come from?! Mother trucking potential energy, dog, the cell reactivates the spring.
Add a couple billion donkey cong and lots of glucose and some seemingly random things and that’s basically pretty much exactly what’s happening.
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Elasticity is classic…cal physics?
How much of the force is going to travel through the object and action reaction back. If you put the same amount of force throwing a bouncy ball and another ball with the same mass, the bouncy ball is going to accelerate more! Whaaaaaa, it’s because of the way the atoms jiggle, that’s really all there is to say about that. Muscles are elastic and can direct force while rebounding back in certain protein motor like mechanisms. To hear about elasticity from someone who doesn’t have tbi looke up hookes law, not elasticity law the business shmoosers have that copyrighted I guess.
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