期刊
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 677, 期 -, 页码 1-60出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2017.02.001
关键词
Disequilibria; Stochastic thermodynamics; Entropy production; Biogenesis
资金
- NASA Astrobiology Institute (Universal Biology)
- NASA Astrobiology Institute (Icy Worlds)
Virtually every interesting natural phenomenon, not least life itself, entails physical systems being forced to flow thermodynamically up-hill, away from equilibrium rather than towards it. This requires the action of a mechanism, acting as an engine'', which lashes the up-hill process to a more powerful one proceeding in its spontaneous, downhill direction; in this way converting one disequilibrium into another. All organized and dynamic elements of creation, from the galactic to the atomic, can be viewed as powered by, or being the result of, engines of disequilibria conversion; each a link in a great hierarchical cascade of conversions. There is, however, widespread misunderstanding about how disequilibria conversions happen-and indeed about what physically causes them to happen-especially regarding the role of energy and of the physical meaning of free energy. We attempt here to describe and justify what we assert is the correct alternative view of how phenomena are powered in nature, focusing especially on the molecular-level conversion processes (often called energy conserving'') that power life and that must, then acting in an entirely abiotic context, have driven it first into being. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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