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
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Jan 28, 2014 - In his influential 1944 monograph “What Is Life? ... source such as an electromagnetic wave, and they can dump heat into a surrounding bath.
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A New Physics Theory of Life - Quanta Magazine
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Jan 22, 2014 - The formula, based on established physics, 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.
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