The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?
http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks-deep-sea-vents.html
IMHO it becomes more interesting when RNA and DNA is involved, that is to say
when a code is involved. It is the same with ancient cultures, the stone age is
barely interesting, it get
Hi Nick, Russ, and all,
Far too much here to be able to answer, but I feel this is one I should pick up
a little. I am relieved that your question is quite specific:
> I am curious to know if others have read this book, and what you might think
> of it.
I haven't read this book. Maybe some
Nick,
I downloaded Nick Lane's Vital Question book a couple months back. From a
quick skim I got the sense it was a nice review of much of the work going
on around non-equilibrium thermodynamic origin of life explanations by the
"Seventh Day Ventists" (eg second law arguments for the emegence of l
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-scientists-rna-abundant-space.html
Folks conflate the comet-origins direction with panspermia, but they are
not quite the same thing.
On 4/24/16 1:47 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?
http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks
I composed my email before seeing Eric's post. Having now read his email, I
would say let's not get too distracted by Nick Lane's Vital Question for
the task we set ourselves at FRIAM.
I think Eric's talks bests represents what I was calling the view of life
as gradient dissipation and a property
