MIT physicist Jeremy England claims that life may not be so mysterious after all, despite the fact it is apparently derived from non-living matter. In a new paper, England explains how simple physical laws make complex life more likely than not. In other words, it would be more surprising to find no life in the universe than a buzzing place like planet Earth.
What does all matter—rocks, plants, animals, and humans—have in common? We all absorb and dissipate energy. While a rock absorbs a small amount of energy before releasing what it doesn’t use back into the universe, life takes in more energy and releases less. This makes life better at redistributing energy, and the process of converting and dissipating energy is simply a fundamental characteristic of the universe.
Written by Orion Jones for Big Think, on December 9, 2014
The one percent elite in society have the most money in the economy. They slowly give portions of their money to other people, organizations, and charities. Consider that this may be how economy will naturally develop, despite humanity’s frustratingly unquenchable desire to develop more at an accelerating rate.
Meanwhile, a few bright minds may either think that we are very late or working steadily despite current developmental conditions. Regardless, nature moves on with what it presents to its sentient residents.
Speaking from a secular point of view, this may be how we would approach the generalized collective course of events that we call life.
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