Molecular Storms review: Unsung physics helps unpick life’s complexity

Molecular Storms review: Unsung physics helps unpick life’s complexity

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Liam Graham’s book is an enthusiastic, often technical quote to discuss how unflashy thermodynamics responses deep concerns about the structure of our cells, Earth and deep space

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Water getting away by means of the plughole develops a low-entropy vortex

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Molecular Storms
Liam Graham (Springer Link)

UNLIKE quantum or particle physics, thermodynamics seldom makes headings, yet it is vital for comprehending how life occurred and how deep space including that life will end. This is at the heart of Molecular Storms: The physics of stars, cells and the origin of life by physicist-turned-economist Liam Graham.

His grand trip of the real world leaves little unexamined, beginning with basic systems of gas particles in a box, transferring to the tiniest, easiest living cells, …

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