So, this is how life originated! Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning & a colossal stroke of luck. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old asst. prof. at the MIT , has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this. The formula, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life. “He is making me think that the distinction between living and nonliving matter is not that sharp” “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant”, England said.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:23:08 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015