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by mncharity 2423 days ago
> are good at conveying the relative scale of things

The atom-sized atomic nuclei in that first video are a mere... 3 orders of magnitude oversized?

> molecules seem to have intent. they fly into the scene

Like little spaceships, doing rendezvous and docking. When watching CG chemistry videos, I sometimes hear the Blue Danube waltz from "2001". Hmm, if that's an infectious meme... sorry?

> the stochastic nature everything is completely missing

The nanoscale mosh pit from hell, and biological binding energies hovering just above thermal dissolution, high enough for satisficing stability, but low enough for cheap dis/assembly, are critical core concepts for understanding biology. So of course they're almost never taught.