This physicist has a groundbreaking idea about why life exists

[OrbitalDawn]

http://www.businessinsider.com/physicist-has-a-groundbreaking-idea-about-why-life-exists-2016-1

Why does life exist?

Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning, and a colossal stroke of luck.

But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”

From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat.

Jeremy England, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Great article thanks

 

[Leonidas]

Prof England has cracked the meaning of life. Can we request of him to influence the ANC constituency to vote otherwise this coming election for the sake of all humanity. Surely he should be able to do this with both hands tied behind his back.

 

[Polymathic]

The purpose of life is to fight entropy