Natalie Wolchover — A New Physics Theory of Life

This is a follow-up post on the recent post on the origin of life in dissipative structure. It is more detailed and traces the history of the concept, but still it is easily accessible without knowledge of the field. There's also a link to Jeremy England's paper for those who would like to look deeper.

Quanta Magazine
A New Physics Theory of Life
Natalie Wolchover
(h/t Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism)

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Physicist says he’s solved the big mystery — how life came from matter — and he may be right (via Raw Story )

The origin of life is basically inevitable from a mathematical standpoint, according to one physicist, and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” Jeremy England, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

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