Biology-Physics the Missing Link?

作     者：Jean-Paul Auffray 

作者机构：Ex Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesNew York UniversityNew YorkUSA Ex American Institute of PhysicsNew YorkUSA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Modern Physics》 (现代物理（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第6期

页      面：359-363页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Schrodinger Dynamical Action Planck Quantum Physics Biological Cells Molecules Electrons Strings Branes Xons 

摘      要：Writing in 1943, renowned Austrian physicist Edwin Schrodinger asked “What is Life? thereby invigorating the debate which preoccupied biologists at the time. He proposed an answer to this question rooted in considerations borrowed from Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. To reveal the missing link in Biology-Physics, the present Note investigates an alternate answer in which dynamical action, rather than thermodynamics and energy, plays the fundamental role. It reviews in particular the process of biological cell replication which may be considered to define “Life and might be the macroscopic manifestation of an underlying quantum physical process in which xons, conveyors of dynamical action, are the determining agents.