Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life
General Physics
2022-04-04 v1
Abstract
Modern developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics have significant implications for the origins of life. The reasons for this are closely related to a generalized version of the second law of thermodynamics recently found for entropy production during irreversible evolution of a given system such as self-replicating RNA. This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to these developments.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2204.00416,
title = {Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life},
author = {Gerald E. Marsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00416},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
To appear in the Canadian Journal of Physics: 20 pages, 3 figures