Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
Autor Sara Imari Walkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2025
Physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. She proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life, inviting us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, Life As No-One Knows It celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics.
'A fresh take on the age-old questions "Are we alone?" and "Where did we come from?"' American Scientist
'A virtuosos intellectual performance... full of wit, mischief and bursts of insolent brevity' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph
'Provocative and intriguing' Wall Street Journal
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349128252
ISBN-10: 0349128251
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția The Bridge Street Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349128251
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția The Bridge Street Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
'A fresh take on the age-old questions "Are we alone?" and "Where did we come from?"' American Scientist
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short.
Physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. She proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life, inviting us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, Life As No-One Knows It celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics.
'With wit and clarity, Walker outlines a radical new approach to bridge the conceptual gap between non-life and life' Paul Davies, author of What's Eating the Universe
Reading Life As No-One Knows It is like engaging in a mind-bending conversation about the biggest questions of all
With wit and clarity, Walker outlines a radical new approach to bridge the conceptual gap between non-life and life
A virtuoso intellectual performance ... full of wit, mischief and bursts of insolent brevity... Walker shows us that what we call 'life' is but an infinitesimal fraction of all the kinds of life that may arise out of any number of wholly unfamiliar chemistries
An honorable addition to a small genre that began with Noble Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? ... Ingenious
Bracingly original ... This has the potential to be a game changer
Provocative and intriguing
A fresh take on the age-old questions 'Are we alone?' and 'Where did we come from?'
A masterfully crafted and engaging account of Assembly Theory. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in fundamental physics, the origins of life, and pursuing a better understanding of the structure underlying all of the universe's creations
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short.
Physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. She proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life, inviting us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, Life As No-One Knows It celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics.
'With wit and clarity, Walker outlines a radical new approach to bridge the conceptual gap between non-life and life' Paul Davies, author of What's Eating the Universe
Reading Life As No-One Knows It is like engaging in a mind-bending conversation about the biggest questions of all
With wit and clarity, Walker outlines a radical new approach to bridge the conceptual gap between non-life and life
A virtuoso intellectual performance ... full of wit, mischief and bursts of insolent brevity... Walker shows us that what we call 'life' is but an infinitesimal fraction of all the kinds of life that may arise out of any number of wholly unfamiliar chemistries
An honorable addition to a small genre that began with Noble Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? ... Ingenious
Bracingly original ... This has the potential to be a game changer
Provocative and intriguing
A fresh take on the age-old questions 'Are we alone?' and 'Where did we come from?'
A masterfully crafted and engaging account of Assembly Theory. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in fundamental physics, the origins of life, and pursuing a better understanding of the structure underlying all of the universe's creations
Notă biografică
Sara Imari Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and discovering alien life on other worlds. She is deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She is also a fellow of the Berggruen Institute and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the recipient of the Stanley L. Miller Early-Career Award for her research on the origin of life, and her research team at ASU is internationally regarded as being among the leading labs aiming to build a fundamental theory for understanding what life is. Her research has been featured in Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, and a variety of other international outlets.