I'm asking any physics major this. If you didn't major in physics in school, I am not interested in your layman's opinion :)
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Well I was a physics major, but I eventually switched to mathematics:
Of course not. It doesn't violate conservation of energy, charge, color-charge, linear or angular momentum; nor does it violate the 4 law of thermodynamics. If you had a law of physics that life violated, that would be a pretty shitty law! Why would you think that it might?
I know of no way physics explains life.
It also does not explicitly explain the properties of gold atoms, do you think gold atoms "contradict our understanding of physics"?
It does not explain them in that there are too many moving parts in a gold atom to calculate what properties it should have from first principles, but clearly those properties are just the consequence of huge numbers of small parts; just like it is for life.
If you'll excuse me for butting in here, without being a Physics major. But contradicting our understanding of physics and demanding physics explain the origins of life are two quite separate things.
If physics does not have an explanation for life, does not mean it contradicts the existence of life.
Oh my golly gosh what a coincidence that you said this! Just a few hours ago I asked myself "are some physics laws human instinct, or did we have to learn all of them?" Such as if you have a balancing beam of wood somehow, and you put a heavy and light rock on each side, which one will tilt down. Are some of these instinct by cavemen?
Sorry for not answering your question lol. I don't see how it would though.
Stu. K. - "Such as if you have a balancing beam of wood somehow, and you put a heavy and light rock on each side, which one will tilt down. Are some of these instinct by cavemen? "
To some extent I think they are; much of Newtonian mechanics seems to be hardwired? into animals. I found this video snippet that is kind of on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRfn9WOtUg
Nyarlathotep, as an enjoinder to one of the images you shares:
http://imgur.com/WVGF9
I thought you'd enjoy that :P
Haha, that's even better than the original. :)
Stu. K., to piggy pack on Mr. N., you may also enjoy this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cT4zZIHR3s
Thanks for the share, he explains it quite clearly.
No. Next stupid question.
Thanks for those videos y'all! Much learned :D