THE VIDEO SHELF · entropy and the origin of life
The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
PBS Space Time, together with It's Okay to be Smart and PBS Eons, asks how a universe drifting toward disorder produced something as complex as life. It presents the idea that the laws of physics, through thermodynamics, may actually favor the emergence of life.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to it as an accessible pop-science introduction to entropy and the physics of life, including Jeremy England's work.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- PBS Space Time
- Topic
- entropy and the origin of life
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This subject is discussed in the pop sci work of PBS spacetime [VIDEO] with reference to articles and books if you're looking for more
efokschaner on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy>but life organizes Yes, and that's the interesting part. In the right circumstances, more entropy doesn't mean less complexity. Matter can become more complex and less entropy locally if that results in increase of total entropy in the system. This can occur, for example, if …
donny2018 on Hacker News · 2023-12
In NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus
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