- 2165 - Evolution of Life, includes my life. This review covers 3 ways life has evolved over 14 billion years starting with minimum Entropy and constantly increasing. Statistics and probabilities make life happen naturally.
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---------------------- 2165 - Evolution of Life, includes my life.
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- This review covers the evolution of Life in 3 different ways. (1) The one still taught in schools. (2) The religious one taught in the Bible. (3) The new one using physics and Entropy to explain the evolution of life.
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- I will start with the so called scientific explanation. Back 3,000,000 years ago the Earth was covered in a warm ocean of primordial soup, a bolt of lightning struck and a stroke of good luck started life in a puddle. The bacteria evolved into plants and animals and eventually us humans. Follow Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection describing life at the level of genes and populations.
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- Then there is the religious explanation that God created Heaven and Earth in 7 days, He created Adam and used Adam’s rib to create Eve. Adam and Eve begat Seth ( 4004 BC), ….. begat Noah ….. begat Constantine ( 864), …. begat Henry II (1113), ……. begat Joseph Smith (1771) ….. begat Kathy Smith ( 1943, … begat James Douglas Detrick V (2009). Almost all of this historical record is men, so how did they get all the begets without women? Request Review 1807 to see 12 pages of these begets covering 139 generations. (73 Kbytes)
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- The 39 pages is only 1.5 megabytes. This is a different evolution of zeros and ones begetting 8 bit words, begetting alphabets symbols, back and white images on the retina of the eyes, photons of 3 electron volts, begetting synapses and neurons in the brain, begetting knowledge of the evolution of life. How to get from 1’s and 0’s to the evolution of life?
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- The brain is converting energy from plants and animals that beget energy from the Sun that begets energy from the beginning Big Bang. An evolution of 14,300,000,000 years.
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- This latest theory involves the idea that there is no essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms. It is just that the living carbon atoms are better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. I thought it was more complicated than that?
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- The underlying physical principal driving the origin and evolution of life is simply a fundamental law of Nature ( Nature = God )
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- This principle has a formula ( math and physics) that indicates when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy ( the Sun ) surrounded by a heat bath ( oceans and atmospheres) restructures itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.
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- You take a clump of atoms, shine a light on it for a long time and it becomes a plant through the evolution of plain ol’ physics. Simple enough?
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- The underlying physical principle that is driving the evolution of life is the 2nd law of thermodynamics which requires Entropy to always increase. Increasing Entropy is increasing randomness, which is the arrow of time. It is the reason time only goes in one direction and never the opposite direction. Energy is spreading out or dispersing as time progresses. That’s entropy?
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- The increasing Entropy is the diffusion of particles through out space which happens simply due to the probabilities, simply statistics. There are more ways for energy to spread out than for it to become concentrated. Can’t get much simpler than that?
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- Particles in a system move around and interact and by sheer chance tend to adopt configurations in which the energy is spread out. Eventually the system arrives at a state of maximum Entropy ( Thermodynamic Equilibrium) in which energy is uniformly distributed.
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- This is happening to the cup of coffee on my desk. It cools off until it reaches equilibrium at room temperature. This process is irreversible. No matter how long the cup sits there it is never spontaneously heating up again. The odds are overwhelmingly stacked against the room’s energy randomly concentrating its atoms to reverse this process.
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- The cooling of the cup of coffee is the result of a simple ratio: The probability that the atoms will undergo the cooling process versus the probability of undergoing the reverse process spontaneously warming up. Entropy increases as the ratio increases, irreversibility increases. The same statistical physics can be applied to biology.
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- A plant absorbs extremely energetic sunlight, uses it to build sugars, ejects infrared light which is a much less concentrated form of energy. (E = h*f) . Lower frequency = lower energy. The Entropy is increasing during photosynthesis as sunlight dissipates , as the plant maintains an orderly internal structure of stems , leaves and roots.
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- Evolutionary outcomes absorb and dissipate more energy from the environment’s external driving force on the way to get there. Particles tend to dissipate more energy when they resonant with a driving force. Clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature (ocean or atmosphere) end over time to arrange themselves to resonate with the source of mechanical, electromagnetic, or chemical work occurring in their environment.
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- Self replication is a system that dissipates an increasing amount of energy over time. Life is a phenomena in Nature of dissipation - driven adaptive organisms. Matter itself tends to spontaneously self-organize ( snow flakes , sand dunes) systems of particles adapt the structures to become better at dissipating energy. That is Entropy. And, I have run out of energy and my coffee is cold. Life is so confusing. Maybe more caffeine will help?
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- You can request Review 1807 which covers a genealogy over 4,000 years. 12 pages (73 Kbytes) long, 139 generations averaging 29 years per generation.
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- And, you can request Review 1808 that covers the evolution of time from 10^-43 seconds to 15,000,000,000 years in 17 pages (77 Kbytes)
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- Life is so unbelievable and the most unbelievable part about it is that you are there reading this and I am done writing it.
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- November 24, 2018. An Index of other recent Reviews is available.
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