How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
For centuries, the scientific question of life’s origins has confounded us. In his new book, preeminent physicist and Hertz Fellow Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time.
Join us for the Hertz Foundation's Innovation Hour on Wednesday, September 16, 2020, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Pacific, when Jeremy shares his field-defining theory of our origins in his new book, Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things, and explains whether science can help us find purpose in a vast and mysterious universe.
The event will take place live using the Zoom video conference platform, and Jeremy will take questions from the audience. You can attend on a desktop, mobile device, or by phone. Please register using the form below, and we'll email you the Zoom meeting information.
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About the Speaker
Hertz Fellow Jeremy England is senior director in artificial intelligence at GlaxoSmithKline, principle research scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the former Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot career development associate professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Rhodes scholar and named one of Forbes “30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science."
About the Book
In Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things, a preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life.
Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren’t. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren’t.
For centuries, the scientific question of life’s origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time, deep within the laws of thermodynamics. England explains how, counterintuitively, the very same forces that tend to tear things apart assembled the first living systems.
But how life began isn’t just a scientific question. We ask it because we want to know what it really means to be alive. So England, an ordained rabbi, uses his theory to examine how, if at all, science helps us find purpose in a vast and mysterious universe.
In the tradition of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Every Life Is on Fire is a profound testament to how something can come from nothing.
Copies of Every Life Is on Fire can be purchased in advance in hard cover or ebook.
