Biology-Physics the Missing Link? ()
Abstract
Writing
in 1943, renowned Austrian physicist Edwin Schrodinger asked “What is Life?”
thereby invigorating the debate which preoccupied biologists at the time. He
proposed an answer to this question rooted in considerations borrowed from
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. To reveal the missing link in Biology-Physics,
the present Note investigates an alternate answer in which dynamical action,
rather than thermodynamics and energy, plays the fundamental role. It reviews
in particular the process of biological cell replication which may be
considered to define “Life” and might be the macroscopic manifestation of an
underlying quantum physical process in which xons, conveyors of dynamical
action, are the determining agents.
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Auffray, J. (2014) Biology-Physics the Missing Link?.
Journal of Modern Physics,
5, 359-363. doi:
10.4236/jmp.2014.56046.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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