Daily Acceleration

Much of the daily life of a living thing has the nature - or at least the effect - of speeding up the transformation and movement of matter and energy. For the human being, say the mundane process of washing and drying one's hands tends to speed up and focus processes in the subject's interest, such as the removal of matter and bacteria from the surface, and the subsequent drying up of that surface, all of which happens as a matter of course in the natural world, just more slowly.