Are You a Jew?

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There are people who line up along either side of what they view as a line of scrimmage between the natural sciences and biblical religion. And so i didn't want to pretend to be naive and sort of say, oell, i'm justo sharing some thought for people's delectation. I've been quite gratified at the intellectual depth that i find there in engagement with these questions. Tha myself am not particularly interested in pushing yes. But i do think it's an important kind of er additional discussion to attach to this,. Just to make sure i'm not a putting stuff out there that will get essentially used to push in a direction.

Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of living beings. But the exact connections between living organisms and the flow of heat and entropy remains a topic of ongoing research. Jeremy England is a leader in this field, deriving connections between thermodynamic relations and the processes of life. He is also an ordained rabbi who finds resonances between modern science and passages in the Hebrew Bible. We talk about it all, from entropy fluctuation theorems to how scientists should approach religion.

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Jeremy England received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is currently Senior Director in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning group at GlaxoSmithKline. He has been a Rhodes scholar, a Hertz fellow, and was named one of Forbes‘s “30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science.” His new book is Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things.

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