Life and Water
Popular Physics
2016-09-08 v2 Condensed Matter
Abstract
Many living organisms on Earth are strongly dependent on water, the natural liquid of the planet. A possible reason for that could be the conjecture of Ryoji Takahashi [Phys. Lett. A 141, 15 (1989)] that water microdrops release negentropy through a phase transition to a phase with zero surface tension. Biological cells could make use of such a phase transition in their duty cycle. We comment on the relative merit of this conjecture, and present it in wider theoretical context.
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@article{arxiv.physics/9610013,
title = {Life and Water},
author = {H. C. Rosu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9610013},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages in latex, typos corrected