Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 347.
Song title: Social to Physical
Original Base by Base episode: 347: Diffusive spreading across dynamic mitochondrial network architectures
Article metadata:
Article title: Diffusive spreading across dynamic mitochondrial network architectures
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523913123
Reference: Holta KB, Zurita C, Teryoshin L, Lewis SC, Koslover EF. Diffusive spreading across dynamic mitochondrial network architectures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026;123(15):e2523913123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2523913123
Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the hush of a living maze, I watch the glow depart,
Little sparks of matter looking for a place to start.
Some paths break like brittle thread, some braid and never end,
And every split and second kiss rewrites the map again.
Pre-Chorus
It’s not just how far you drift, it’s who you get to meet,
How long a cluster takes to fill, then move its hungry feet.
A clock for fusion, one for loss, one for the next collide—
All ticking out the rhythm of the currents deep inside.
Chorus
From social space to physical line, the rules will change in time,
More links, and suddenly the spread obeys a different rhyme.
We chase the half-time, watch it rise, then fall when roads align—
In tangled networks, we become one signal, redefined.
Verse 2
In crowded branches, motion stalls, a plateau in the light,
If fragments guard their corners through the long fluorescent night.
But stitch the edges, tighten loops, let neighborhoods combine,
And what was slow and scattered turns to steady, shared design.
Bridge
Between encounter and decay, between the break and blend,
There’s a simple law of scaling where the dimensions bend.
A fractal-looking universe, a mean-field hand to hold—
The same old drift, in new geometry, brave and bold.
Final Chorus
From social space to physical line, the rules will change in time,
More links, and suddenly the spread obeys a different rhyme.
So let the network breathe and shift, let fusion draw the sign—
Till proteins, ions, whispers of RNA all intertwine.
