This article is profoundly wrong. Physicists and chemists know exactly what life is.
It's a historical contingency, a strange and unlikely one. The reason we're here is that we could equally well not be here, and the universe would get on fine without us. For most of its history, it did. In most places, it still does.
The interesting question is why so few other people know that.
It's a historical contingency, a strange and unlikely one. The reason we're here is that we could equally well not be here, and the universe would get on fine without us. For most of its history, it did. In most places, it still does.
The interesting question is why so few other people know that.