A New Physics Theory Of Life

[Storm]

I ran across this article in my Facebook feed and I found it to be very interesting. It proposes a new theory as to why and how life originated. I am certainly not a Physicist or a Biologist or a Mathematician/Statistician, however I found that his theory seems to make logical sense and, according to the article, his theory is certainly making waves in the scientific community. Do any of our Scientific frequenters have any info on this theory of have you heard anything in regards to this and its viability? I am certainly curious to see how this plays out and if it eventually leads to a better explanation of how life came to be. 

[yunea]

That's extremely interesting, at least. I hope I will hear my professors speak about this.

[bornagainathiest]

Thanks for posting this, Storm!   

 

I can't speak to the details of England's work, but what he appears to be saying chimes very nicely with what I do know about organic molecules discovered in space and how they might be the precursors of early life.

 

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0722-what-in-the-worlds-are-tholins.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

 

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-unexpected-discovery-comet-alcohol-sugar.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circumstellar_molecules

 

If he's hit upon how 'dead' raw materials naturally (not supernaturally) reorganize themselves into living matter, this is BIG news.

 

 

Thanks,

 

BAA.

[hockeyfan70]

That's really good stuff right there. 

 

And now I have a new online magazine to peruse.

[dangitbobby83]

I had read another article about his work a few weeks back and it's rather exciting. It's similar to when Einstein updated and expanded upon Newton's theories of gravity. Based on what I read, it might be that life itself is simply a consequence of thermodynamics, no god/supernatural entity needed. Interesting for sure.

[Storm]

That's extremely interesting, at least. I hope I will hear my professors speak about this.

You could certainly bring it to their attention. From what I understand its relatively recent in that it was just published within the last few months. 

[Storm]

Thanks for posting this, Storm!   

 

I can't speak to the details of England's work, but what he appears to be saying chimes very nicely with what I do know about organic molecules discovered in space and how they might be the precursors of early life.

 

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0722-what-in-the-worlds-are-tholins.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

 

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-unexpected-discovery-comet-alcohol-sugar.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circumstellar_molecules

 

If he's hit upon how 'dead' raw materials naturally (not supernaturally) reorganize themselves into living matter, this is BIG news.

 

 

Thanks,

 

BAA.

A cursory look at your links seems to show a possible and logical agreement. I am really excited to see what comes from this. 

[yunea]

 

That's extremely interesting, at least. I hope I will hear my professors speak about this.

 

You could certainly bring it to their attention. From what I understand its relatively recent in that it was just published within the last few months.

Yes - I am thinking of asking my Thermodynamics professors whether they've seen this. From what I have previously learned in their classes, there is a lot in this that makes sense to me, but I'm just a student.

[Thought2Much]

It would be REALLY interesting if life could be found to be an inevitable thermodynamic result of the right kind of matter exposed to the right conditions, as opposed to a lucky fluke. I find this scientist's ideas to be intriguing, and would like to see more work done to see if he's right.

[hockeyfan70]

It would be REALLY interesting if life could be found to be an inevitable thermodynamic result of the right kind of matter exposed to the right conditions, as opposed to a lucky fluke. I find this scientist's ideas to be intriguing, and would like to see more work done to see if he's right.

Haha I just watched Archer for the first time, so your avatar made me laugh.

[Storm]

From what I am understanding from the article, there are already experiments being planned and possibly underway as I type this. I suspect we will start seeing news of this in the near future.