A friend did his PhD in the thermodynamics of open systems -- the sort of thing that describes, say, the long-term evolution of a "thing" that occasionally cons

A friend did his PhD in the thermodynamics of open systems -- the sort of thing that describes, say, the long-term evolution of a "thing" that occasionally consumes and rejects energy. One thing he mentioned to me was being contacted by lots of crackpots, each with their own new idea wrt what open system thermo means about living organisms. It's a very new and very difficult field and there aren't hard results yet. I would take this article with a shaker of salt, and perhaps some tequila, lime juice, and Grand Marnier.