Entropy and life
Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen
26,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
PAYBACK Punkte
13 °P sammeln!
Much writing has been devoted to entropy and life. Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and the evolution of life began in around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger served largely to stimulate this research. In this b...
Much writing has been devoted to entropy and life. Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and the evolution of life began in around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger served largely to stimulate this research. In this book, Schrodinger states that life feeds on negative entropy, or negentropy as it is sometimes called. Recent writings have utilized the concept of Gibbs free energy to elaborate on this issue.
