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Life is a catalyst for entropy generation. Entropy finds its way.
by SnowHill9902 4y ago
Life is a catalyst for entropy generation. Entropy finds its way.
- jon_richards 4y agoI’m not a fan of this explanation. Entropy generation is only a side effect of life. It’s easy to imagine life arising in a universe without our version of entropy.
- devmor 4y agoHow could life, or any complex matter at all exist without entropy?
- NavinF 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
- devmor 4y agoUnless I missed someone recently receiving a Nobel prize for demonstrating proof of isentropic metabolism, or non-metabolic life, this doesn't answer the question whatsoever.
- SnowHill9902 4y agoWhat other version of entropy is there?
- chaxor 4y agoI'm very confused by this whole thread. Entropy is independent of 'life'. It's most canonically understood in terms of heat transfer, as it arose first from the study of thermodynamics.
- dekhn 4y agoLife is a collection of catalysts that use free energy to order matter (reduced entropy) at the cost of waste heat (increased entropy).
- refurb 4y agoLife decreases entropy before increasing it at the expense of enthalpy.
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