{"id":161619,"date":"2023-04-06T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might"},"modified":"2023-04-06T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:22:18","slug":"life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might","title":{"rendered":"Life: Modern physics can\u2019t explain it\u2014but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very young and when it comes to using it to explain life, physicists struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, we can\u2019t really explain what the difference is between a living lump of matter and a dead one. But my colleagues and I are creating a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physics<\/a> of life that might soon provide answers.<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 years ago, Darwin poignantly noted the dichotomy between what we understand in physics and what we observe in life\u2014noting at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsnr.2018.0015\">The Origin of Species<\/a> \u201c\u2026whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very young and when it comes to using it to explain life, physicists struggle. Even today, we can\u2019t really explain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}