Life is a river, chemical and scripted.

• Type: Academic Work
• Date: 2014

Authors

José Augusto Pereira (Author) ICBAS

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences

CORDIS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences

Other information

Resumo (PT): Ideias apresentadas na sessão 1 do ciclo "'What Is Life?' - conversas entre as ciências e as humanidades", ICBAS-UP, Outubro 2014

Abstract (EN): In “What Is Life?”, Schrödinger manifests a worry. As a physicist of an era when Physics has finally established an all-embracing and all-explaining model of Nature, Statistical Thermodynamics, he is troubled to reconcile (1) the notion that physical Laws stability comes from averages of big numbers of small dynamical molecules with (2) the growing evidence that biological stability is centred in only a handful of molecules. These “molecules”, the chromosomes, had therefore to be crystal-like, for stability, and big and aperiodic, so that it can carry the necessary information to rule life; the “code-script”.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: http://whatislifesciencesandhumanities.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/life-is-a-river-chemical-and-scripted/