Ars Technica has an interesting article that I can't avoid bringing up here. The title of the article is:
"How the craziest f#@!ing "theory of everything" got published and promoted"
The Ars Technica article describes a paper (Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life) published by an assistant professor from Case Western. The author of the paper describes a theory of everything which because of a press release from Case Western manages to get amplified out of all proportion even though the content is highly suspect. Just reading the first sentence is enough to raise a big red flag. That sentence is:
"How life abides by the second law of thermodynamics yet evolutionarily complexifies and maintains its intrinsic order is a fundamental mystery in physics, chemistry, and biology [1]."
There is no mystery here as the author suggests. If he had bothered to read up on Prigogine's and Nichols well-known work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics published decades ago he would have an explanation for this "mystery".
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