Scientists confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists-similarity-human-cells-neutron.html
We humans may be more aligned with the universe than we realize. According to research published in the journal Physical Review C,
neutron stars and cell cytoplasm have something in common: structures that resemble multistory parking garages.
In 2014, UC Santa Barbara soft condensed-matter physicist Greg Huber and colleagues explored the biophysics of such shapes—helices
that connect stacks of evenly spaced sheets—in a cellular organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Huber and his colleagues
dubbed them Terasaki ramps after their discoverer, Mark Terasaki, a cell biologist at the University of Connecticut.
Huber thought these "parking garages" were unique to soft matter (like the interior of cells) until he happened upon the work of
nuclear physicist Charles Horowitz at Indiana University. Using computer simulations, Horowitz and his team had found the same
shapes deep in the crust of neutron stars.
