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Author(s): | José Augusto Pereira |
Title: | Life is a river, chemical and scripted. |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Abstract: | 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". |
Description: | Ideias apresentadas na sessão 1 do ciclo "'What Is Life?' - conversas entre as ciências e as humanidades", ICBAS-UP, Outubro 2014 |
Subject: | Ciências biológicas, Ciências biológicas Biological sciences, Biological sciences |
Scientific areas: | Ciências exactas e naturais::Ciências biológicas Natural sciences::Biological sciences |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/77364 |
Document Type: | Trabalho Académico |
Rights: | openAccess |
License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
Appears in Collections: | ICBAS - Trabalho Académico |
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