That’s what life is inside all our cells. Just a bunch of molecules bashing around randomly but because it’s all the right ingredients in there, the right things find each other and fit together and somehow it still works.
When you see an animation of a cell, it's puzzling how the right molecule shows up in the right place. But in reality, a typical enzyme collides with something to react with 500,000 times per second just from random motion.
I wrote a blog post discussing this in more detail: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...
Most chemistry is like that though isn't it? Everything is flying around randomly but the electron density distributions mean some "bonds" have better probability of being broken and made during reactions.
A cell is similar (since it is 60% water), but with many other types of molecules as well.
But that is obviously a misconception. Vacuum is not attracting anything, it is the fast moving molecules around it that PUSH themselves into the vacuum if we make a whole in the container.
What makes it hard to visualize is that we don't see the fast-moving molecules ever, which are forcing themselves into the container through the pierced hole by the power of their own (tiny) momentum yet very fast speed. :-)
It is also counter-intuitive that tiny things could have fast speeds, perhaps because we think in terms of a person being able to walk much faster than say an ant.
Found out much later — tag so many amino acids, that it would stumble on ribosome. Genius.
Movement at the level of sports won't cause well-mixed cells - their fundamental frequencies are too different.
But actually moving around a lot wouldn't make a difference if the bits in your cells are moving around at hundreds of miles per hour.
Yes, a lot of science has "thought of" at looking intra-cell. In fact, the explanation of "don't shake their cells enough" must be very fringe because I haven't heard it any one time before from any serious scientist or a health book etc. The human body is much more complicated, and the way we understand many of the functions of it, including healthy functions, are based on biochemistry, both intra-cell and throughout the body.
Also "shaking the cells" can't even be that important physically, when you compare the speeds at which the limbs move during running to the base speeds of molecules inside the cell due to basic heat-based brownian motion.
The insides of the simplest cell are far more complicated than any production line.