SPERM cells have proved to defy the law of physics when they are swimming toward a reproductive egg.
Scientists studied how sperm cells are able to propel through liquid and found that it is indeed an exception to Newton’s third law of motion.
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Newton’s third law of motion says that the way a sperm cell travels should be impossible.
It says that the sperm cell and the liquid when traveling to an egg should rebound off of each other and stop motion.
The actual definition is that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
The study was done by Kenta Ishimoto, a mathematical scientist at Kyoto University in Japan, and was published in PRX Life on October 11.
They studied these non-reciprocal interactions to see how sperm is able to resist the movement of the liquid substance.
They found that sperm cells are capable of a loophole for equal and opposite forces that work against Newton’s third law.
It was discovered that because sperm can create its own energy using the “whip of its tail,” it is not a normal form of equilibrium and creates its own rules.
The study concluded that: “Through simple solvable models and the analysis of Chlamydomonas flagella waveforms and experimental data for human sperm.
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“We demonstrate the wide applicability of a nonlocal and non-reciprocal description of internal interactions within living materials in viscous fluids.
“Offering a unified framework for active and living matter physics.”
The findings will help give scientists a better understanding of the underlying principles of collective behavior and what life-creating science is capable of.
SUPER SPERM ROBOTS
There is also an exciting plus from the study’s findings.
Scientists believe that with an understanding of how sperm cells are able to defy physics, they can now re-create the process.
In re-creating the process, they would design tiny robots that can act like sperm cells.
It would “consist of three rods connected by two hinges to form a snakelike robot, and can swim in a plane by changing the angles of the hinges,” the study said.
