302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

1698.894 - 1726.034 Chris Kempes

And so if you think about the smallest bacteria, they have this membrane that is shrinking down. If you imagine a spherical cow, and here we really can imagine a spherical cow because the small bacteria are little spheres. So imagine the small spherical bacterium. And as it shrinks down, the membrane has its own finite thickness. And so imagine you have a really thick membrane.