2008/04/11 by Robert Shour, Shour, Robert
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #H.1.1 #J.3
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0804.1924
openalex publication_date 2008/04/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Researchers have found that the metabolisms of organisms appear to scale proportionally to a 3/4 power of their mass. Mathematics in this article suggests that the capacity of an isotropically radiating energy supply scales up by a 4/3 power as its size (and therefore the degrees of freedom of its circulatory system) increases. Accordingly, cellular metabolism scales inversely by a 3/4 power, likely to prevent the 4/3 scaling up of the energy supply overheating the cell. The same 4/3 power scaling may explain cosmological dark energy.