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> My main question is how the viruses find their way reliably into these preassembled traps.

I've always wondered that about enzymes, just one of the many reasons I'm not a biochemist.



Brownian motion means molecules inside your body move at ~10000kph (and because it’s random they don’t go anywhere). They’re bouncing around at that speed inside a 30 cubic micrometer ball.

At that speed they meet every other molecule. Not just meet, but touch them everywhere, at every angle, in every configuration.




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