Biophysics: Week 10

I was reading an article in the New Yorker recently titled "Germs are us" which talked about how we are inhabited by ten thousand species of bacteria, which in total outnumber what we normally consider "our" cells by 10 to 1. All together, they weigh 3 pounds, the same as our brain. And we would not be able to function without them. So yes, I think all humans are living organism hosting our own special ecosystem that can't be seen to the naked eye.

Biophysics, the use of physics to study biology is related to Chinese medicine in that much of Chinese medicine is about the movement of qi and blood throughout the body. In some ways, we can say that the fluid dynamics we study in Chinese medicine is very related to theories of physics, and being that it's applied to the biological functions, it is related to the field of biophysics.