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that's a noble attempt, but your argument boils down to "we don't know what we don't know" and "anything can happen", and that's true as far as that goes, but i
by clairity 7y ago
that's a noble attempt, but your argument boils down to "we don't know what we don't know" and "anything can happen", and that's true as far as that goes, but it's unhelpful in answering why viruses can't spontaneously reform from fragments. basic biochemistry and thermodynamics provide foundational knowledge in answering that question, not epistemology.
if you could run your argument through that foundational knowledge and form a coherent theory for how virii might spontaneously reform, we'd all be open to it.
- pvaldes 7y agoThermodynamic laws are of limited use in biology and notoriously useless to describe life being's behaviour. Third law in particular is useless here. You can't put both concepts of life and zero absolute in the same room. They are mutually exclusive. Either you have one, or the other, or none of them. Claiming thermodynamics here is a false argument. Viruses can pass over thermodynamic laws all the time. They live in a bigger system that provides an unlimited source of materials, metabolism, energy and constant temperatures and where events like frost, ebullition or spontaneous combustion are just banned. The host pays the thermodynamic bills for they