{"id":87173,"date":"2019-01-30T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lifes-secret-ingredient-a-radical-theory-of-what-makes-things-alive"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:03:49","slug":"lifes-secret-ingredient-a-radical-theory-of-what-makes-things-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lifes-secret-ingredient-a-radical-theory-of-what-makes-things-alive","title":{"rendered":"Life\u2019s secret ingredient: A radical theory of what makes things alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lifes-secret-ingredient-a-radical-theory-of-what-makes-things-alive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does inanimate matter come to breathe, thrive and reproduce? Explaining this magic means overhauling nature\u2019s laws, says physicist <strong>Paul Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Paul Davies<\/p>\n<p>THERE is something special \u2013 almost magical \u2013 about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23831840-900-how-to-think-about-life\/\">life<\/a>. Biophysicist Max Delbr\u00fcck expressed it eloquently: \u201cThe closer one looks at these performances of matter in living organisms, the more impressive the show becomes. The meanest living cell becomes a magic puzzle box full of elaborate and changing molecules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24132150-100-lifes-secret-ingredient-a-radical-theory-of-what-makes-things-alive\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24132150&#45;100-life...ngs-alive\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does inanimate matter come to breathe, thrive and reproduce? Explaining this magic means overhauling nature\u2019s laws, says physicist Paul Davies By Paul Davies THERE is something special \u2013 almost magical \u2013 about life. Biophysicist Max Delbr\u00fcck expressed it eloquently: \u201cThe closer one looks at these performances of matter in living organisms, the more impressive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87173","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}