{"id":211326,"date":"2025-04-13T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-physics-of-entropy-and-the-origin-of-life-sean-carroll"},"modified":"2025-04-13T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:11:49","slug":"the-physics-of-entropy-and-the-origin-of-life-sean-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-physics-of-entropy-and-the-origin-of-life-sean-carroll","title":{"rendered":"The physics of entropy and the origin of life | Sean Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sz1n0RHwLqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, The Universe in 90 minutes: Time, free will, God, &amp; more \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tM4sLmt1Ui8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/tM4sLmt1Ui8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did life on Earth originate? Scientists still aren\u2019t sure, and this remains one of the world\u2019s most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>One way of approaching the question is to think generally about how complex systems emerge from chaos. Since the 1800s, scientists have known that entropy is always increasing, with everything in our Universe trending toward disorder over time.<\/p>\n<p>A more nuanced understanding of entropy is helping today\u2019s scientists make progress on the question of the origin of life, as Sean Carroll explains in this Big Think video.<\/p>\n<p>Read the video transcript \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/series\/great-question\/entropy-origin-of-life\/\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/series\/great-question\/entropy-origin-of-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-physics-of-entropy-and-the-origin-of-life-sean-carroll\">Continue reading \u201cThe physics of entropy and the origin of life | Sean Carroll\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains. Up next, The Universe in 90 minutes: Time, free will, God, &amp; more \u25ba https:\/\/youtu.be\/tM4sLmt1Ui8 How did life on Earth originate? Scientists still aren\u2019t sure, and this remains one of the world\u2019s most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries. One way of approaching the question is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211326","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}