Self-Oscillation with Structural Color Changes

Self-Oscillation with Structural Color Changes... [Pg.121]

There is an important connection. Life developed under non-equilibrium conditions. Consider first an example. Far from equilibrium, you have chemical oscillations in which millions of millions of molecules change their color simultaneously. This type of coherence is possible only if there are long-range correlations. They occur only far from equilibrium. Similarly, biomolecules, with their complex structures, would be impossible to build in equilibrium conditions. They would have a negligible probability. This is no more so in far-from-equilibrium conditions. However, the detailed mechanism by which biomolecules appeared is still a controversial problem. But surely, biomolecules are non-equilibrium structures maintained from one generation to the next by self-replication. [Pg.425]

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