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ENERGY INEFFICIENCY. "The second law is a straightforward law of physics with the consequence that, in a closed system, you can't finish any real physical process with as much useful energy as you had to start with — some is always wasted. This means that a perpetual motion machine is impossible." http://www.panspermia.org/seconlaw.htm View in LinkedIn

INVIOLABLE LAW AND URBAN MYTH. "Sometimes people say that life violates the second law of thermodynamics. This is not the case; we know of nothing in the universe that violates that law." http://www.panspermia.org/seconlaw.htm View in LinkedIn

SLY CATCH. "No one knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage." https://lnkd.in/dg_EX4d View in LinkedIn

SELECTION VS EASIER PATH. They might find, for example, that “the reason that an organism shows characteristic X rather than Y may not be because X is more fit than Y, but because physical constraints make it easier for X to evolve than for Y to evolve." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn

AVOIDING NATURAL SELECTION. "Natural selection doesn’t explain certain characteristics...These characteristics include a heritable change to gene expression called methylation, increases in complexity in the absence of natural selection, and certain molecular changes." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn

THE GREY ZONE. "The distinction between living and nonliving matter is not sharp." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn

DISSIPATION AND ORGANIZATION. "Snowflakes, sand dunes and turbulent vortices all have in common that they are strikingly patterned structures that emerge in many-particle systems driven by some dissipative process...Condensation, wind and viscous drag are the relevant processes in these particular cases." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn

INANIMATE SELF-ORGANIZATION. "Under certain conditions, matter will spontaneously self-organize. This tendency could account for the internal order of living things and of many inanimate structures as well." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn

GRADUAL INTEGRATION. "The integration of new genes into gene-gene interaction networks is a gradual evolutionary process. The new genes started, at a young age, to be integrated into networks to form new and less connected branches; however, with the elapse of evolutionary time, as genes grow older, they acquired more interacting links." https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-015-0772-4 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXIFICATION. "Besides self-replication, greater structural organization is another means by which strongly driven systems ramp up their ability to dissipate energy. A plant, for example, is much better at capturing and routing solar energy through itself than an unstructured heap of carbon atoms." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ View in LinkedIn