Janine Nicole Martin's Baby's Growth
Take, for example, the growth of something at the macro scale. By macro scale, I mean at a
scale that humans can view and model in their minds. To make a human baby, for
example, takes nine months and then another few decades to raise to maturity. It seems at
this level that life is a slow moving process. Most humans would guess that a bluebird's
wings are fast but not as fast as a hummingbird's. Although humans would guess that a flies
wings move even faster than a hummingbirds, this is not to say that these same humans
have reduced this concept to a generality.
Here is something that you might consider about how life works.
Janine is pregnant. Her baby must create 200 billion brain cells which will later be pruned
to 100 billion neurons.
7-Feb-2010 is the day Janine became pregnant.
14-Nov-2010 is the day Janine will deliver baby.
280 is the number of days Janine's baby will be growing inside her.
93 is the number of days in the third semester when most brain cells are created.
200,000,000,000 is the number of brain cells at time of birth before pruning.
4000 is the average number of synapses per neuron.
800,000,000,000,000 is the total number of synapses at birth.
9,000,000,000,000 is the number of snapses per day added average during third trimester.
400,000,000,000 snapses must be added per hour.
6,000,000,000 snapses must be created each minute.
100,000,000 snapses per second.
The conclusion is that during the third trimester Janine's baby is creating about 100
million neural connections per second. That is an extension of the principle that smaller
things tend to move faster. They do, after all, have less inertia to contend with.
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Take, for example, the growth of something at the macro scale. By macro scale, I mean at a
scale that humans can view and model in their minds. To make a human baby, for
example, takes nine months and then another few decades to raise to maturity. It seems at
this level that life is a slow moving process. Most humans would guess that a bluebird's
wings are fast but not as fast as a hummingbird's. Although humans would guess that a flies
wings move even faster than a hummingbirds, this is not to say that these same humans
have reduced this concept to a generality.
Here is something that you might consider about how life works.
Janine is pregnant. Her baby must create 200 billion brain cells which will later be pruned
to 100 billion neurons.
7-Feb-2010 is the day Janine became pregnant.
14-Nov-2010 is the day Janine will deliver baby.
280 is the number of days Janine's baby will be growing inside her.
93 is the number of days in the third semester when most brain cells are created.
200,000,000,000 is the number of brain cells at time of birth before pruning.
4000 is the average number of synapses per neuron.
800,000,000,000,000 is the total number of synapses at birth.
9,000,000,000,000 is the number of snapses per day added average during third trimester.
400,000,000,000 snapses must be added per hour.
6,000,000,000 snapses must be created each minute.
100,000,000 snapses per second.
The conclusion is that during the third trimester Janine's baby is creating about 100
million neural connections per second. That is an extension of the principle that smaller
things tend to move faster. They do, after all, have less inertia to contend with.
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