Comment by niemandhier

"electrons flow through the respiratory chains of the respective feedback controllers like sand in the hourglass that determines when balance must be restored"

Wow, that is my new favorite sentence from any paper ever, replacing Mark Thomas' equally epic: "What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a Lord of the Rings-type world" from the legendary meeting at the Royal Society in London 2012/13.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14196