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Fundamental nature of living things challenges physicists longtime assumptions
- bookofjoe 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/Gm9cp https://archive.ph/Gm9cp
- gnabgib 11mo agoTitle: The truth physics can no longer ignore Previously (13 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276603
- bookofjoe 11mo agoOriginal title seemed like clickbait so I changed it.
- Terr_ 11mo ago> [Life is] the only system in the universe that uses information for its own purposes. This seems like the start of something a little circular: What does the thing? Life does. How do you know it's Life? It does the thing. > One of physicists’ great talents—starting with the laws of simple parts (such as atoms) and working up to a complex whole—cannot fully account for cells, animals, or people. Luckily, the field has another elemental skill that can help: a particular way of asking questions and building models to make predictions. Physicists have always been good at capturing the essential aspects of a system and casting those essentials in the language of mathematics. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/
- bediger4000 11mo agoNot again! This kind of "learned but arrogant scientist takes on the mystery of Life" stuff is tedious, and almost always ends up trying to justify Christian creationism of one kind or the other.