Walking droplets, swimming microbes: on memory in physics and life

Autor: Libchaber, Albert, Tlusty, Tsvi
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Vol 348, Iss 6-7, Pp 545-554 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1873-7234
DOI: 10.5802/crmeca.25
Popis: Whirling and swerving, a bacterium is swimming in a test tube, foraging for food. On the surface of a vibrating bath, a droplet starts walking. A certain similarity, but mostly dissimilarity, between the physical memory that emerges in Couder’s droplet experiments and the biological memory of the bacterium is noted. It serves as a starting point for a short perspective and speculation on the multilevel, loopy memory of living matter.
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