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Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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Author:
Jeremy England
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
September 15, 2020
Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time, deep within the laws of thermodynamics.
What The Reviewers Say
Mr. England aims to show how life could have arisen spontaneously through natural processes in a God-given universe. In order to do that, he needs a clear definition of what counts as life.
A largely successful effort to explain biology through the principles of physics.
England, a physicist and rabbi, debuts with an ambitious but disappointing multidisciplinary inquiry into the origin and meaning of life.
