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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

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Schrödinger had predicted rough DNA structure

Living matter may involve unknown laws of physics. Schrödinger predicted DNA's aperiodic crystal structure to encode cell information. He explained life defying entropy, questioning how order emerges. Physics community seeks to explain life through non-equilibrium physics, but the solution might not lie there as it fails to address the emergence of complex order from randomness. The deterministic view of the universe in physics needs a reformulation to understand life and its complexity.

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