Via Does new physics lurk inside living matter? by Paul Davies (Regents’ Professor in the physics department at Arizona State University in Tempe and the director of the university’s Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science). Via Physics Today by Paul Davies (Regents’ Professor in the physics department at Arizona State University in Tempe and the director of the university’s Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science).





The link between information and physics has been implicit since James Clerk Maxwell introduced his famous demon. Information is now emerging as a key concept to bridge physics and biology.





To a physicist, life looks like magic. Living things accomplish feats so dazzling, so enigmatic, that it’s easy to forget they are made of ordinary atoms. But if the secret of life is not the stuff of which living things are made, then what is it? What gives organisms that distinctive élan that sets them apart as remarkable and special? That was the question posed by Erwin Schrödinger in a famous series of lectures delivered in Dublin, Ireland, in 1943, and published the following year as an influential book titled What Is Life?

