The dynamic order within organisms

The pictures on the front page of Mae-Wan Ho’s book The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms show the dynamic order within organisms.

The pictures were taken with polarizing light microscopy.¹ The light passing through experiences perfect order att every instant. The molecules in tissues and cells are globally aligned and move coherently as a whole.² The colors fade when the organism dies.³

Notes:
1. Mae-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, p. 207.
2. Ibid., p. 208.
3. Ibid., p. 209.