THE SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE

The Human Body, Bones, Blood and the Brain in 400 Facts

von Cornelis van Houte

488 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Diffusion is free. It needs no pump, no energy, and no structure-and it does not scale.

The distance a molecule wanders grows with the square root of time, meaning ten times the distance takes a hundred times as long. Above a scale of one millimetre, diffusion fails. Every organ in the human body is an answer to that single physical constraint.

This complete omnibus collects four acclaimed volumes-The Human Body in 100 Facts, Bones in 100 Facts, Blood in 100 Facts, and The Human Brain in 100 Facts-together for the first time.

Journey deep into the architecture of life through 400 rigorous, interconnected facts:

- The Body & The Square Law: Discover why no living cell is more than a hair's breadth from a capillary, how internal surfaces are folded to fit space, and why bulk flow plumbing beats waiting.- Bones & The Skeleton: Explore how a tenth of the adult skeleton is dismantled and rebuilt every year, why cartilage cannot repair itself, and how bone serves as a dark, wet, living matrix producing billions of cells daily.- Blood & The Circulation: Trace how a mature red cell discards its nucleus to fold through vessels narrower than itself, how William Harvey proved circulation using basic arithmetic, and why decades of attempts to build synthetic blood substitutes have failed.- The Brain & The Mind: Unpack why the brain consumes a fifth of the body's energy while taking up only two percent of its mass, how it holds zero fuel reserve, and how decades of textbook myths (like the 10% brain usage claim) were born out of thin air.

Challenging sloppy estimates and repeated textbook errors, author Cornelis van Houte strips away medical jargon to reveal the stark, elegant physics underlying human anatomy. Whether read from cover to cover or dipped into fact by fact, The Square of the Distance offers a sharper instinct for how the human machine actually works.

Cornelis van Houte

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175912884
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published