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\item In \citet{Rowghanian_Grosberg_2013} page 5, second column, they use dimensional analysis to justify a steady-state approximation used in the paper: the time taken to establish the fluid velocity profile around a section of DNA must be much shorter than the time taken the DNA to ``move past'' the velocity profile.  %  \begin{enumerate}[a] \begin{enumerate}  \item I want to try to do a better job than Payam's scaling argument: what are the coefficients in the ``$\# \ll 1$'' relationship? This might be interesting because of a problem acknowledged in Payam's other paper: his predictions do not fit the experimental data.  \item Dimensional analysis argument not fully understood: I guessed $t_{\rm h}\sim \ell/c_{\rm s}$ on physical grounds, but Payam says $t_{\rm h}\sim \ell^2\rho/\eta$ from dimensional analysis. What is the interpretation of Payam's $t_{\rm h}$?