Can entropy be defined for, and the Second Law applied to living systems?

2017/05/06 by Arieh Ben‐Naim, Arieh Ben-Naim, Ben-Naim, Arieh
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT) #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.pop-ph #q-bio.OT

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.02461

30 pages 4 Figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.01100, arXiv:1705.01467

arxiv created 2017/05/06 · openalex publication_date 2017/05/06 · arxiv updated 2017/05/09 · openalex created_date 2017/05/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This article provides answers to the questions posed in the title. Contrary to the most common views, we show that neither the entropy, nor the Second Law may be used for either living systems, or to life phenomenon.

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