Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2020 Annual Meeting of the APS Four Corners Section (Virtual)
Volume 65, Number 16
Friday–Saturday, October 23–24, 2020; Albuquerque, NM (Virtual)
Session G01: APS Four Corners Bring-Your-Own BanquetLive
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Chair: Barry Ritchie, ASU |
Friday, October 23, 2020 6:00PM - 7:30PM Live |
G01.00001: The Demon in the Machine: Does New Physics Lurk Inside Living Matter? Invited Speaker: Paul Davies When Darwin explained evolution, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question of what gives life its distinctive and dazzling properties. That challenge was taken up by the physicist Erwin Schr\"{o}dinger in a famous 1944 book \textit{What Is Life?} Decades later, the nature of living matter remains an enigma. But recently, deep links between information theory and biological organisms offer an important clue -- the origins of which can be traced back 153 years to `Maxwell's demon,' a thought experiment linking information and matter.~ [Preview Abstract] |
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