The Second Law as a Cause of the Evolution

نویسنده

  • Oded Kafri
چکیده

It is a common belief that in any environment where life is possible, life will be generated. Here it is suggested that the cause for a spontaneous generation of complex systems is probability driven processes. Based on equilibrium thermodynamics, it is argued that in low occupation number statistical systems, the second law of thermodynamics yields an increase of thermal entropy and a canonic energy distribution. However, in high occupation number statistical systems, the same law for the same reasons yields an increase of information and a Benford's law/power-law energy distribution. It is therefore, plausible, that eventually the heat death is not necessarily the end of the universe. Introduction Till the late 17 century the common hypothesis about the origin of life was Abiogenesis or a spontaneous generation of life from organic substances. For example, if we put an orange on a table, after a while we will probably find worms in it. The conclusion that the worms are generated from the orange is only part of the truth. We know today that eggs of a fly called Drosophila melanogaster have to be present in the orange, in the first place in order for the worms to be generated. Nevertheless, the "explanation" that the eggs are the reason for the generation of the worms in the orange does not diminish the appeal of the Abiogenesis hypothesis. For an observer in space looking at the earth over billions of years, the formation of life, buildings, roads, cars etc, cannot be explained in a similar way as the formation of worms in the orange. For him, the explanation for life and even buildings, books etc. is a spontaneous generation. What are the "eggs" of these objects? Contemporary science deals with evolution, namely how life evolved from the simple to the complex. Nevertheless, evolution theories do not deal and do not explain the reason for spontaneous generation of complex objects as life and artificial objects [1]. Sometimes life is regarded as a thriving for order. It seems we are constantly fighting against the chaos invading our life, constantly looking for rules and laws, and if we don't find them we invent them. However, there is no scientific definition of order. It seems odd that order is not defined in science, while entropy, the entity that is conceived as a measure of disorder, is so widely used. According to the 2 law of thermodynamics,

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/0711.4507  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007