Electron. J. Math. Phys. Sci., 2002, Sem. 2, 1-15

 

Thermodynamics of biological evolution and aging: Supramolecular thermodynamics is a key to understanding phenomena of life. What is life from a physical chemist’s viewpoint

 

Georgi P. Gladyshev

N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical, Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina 4, Moscow, 117977, Russia, E-mail: academy@endeav.org, http://www.endeav.org/evolut

Received: 29 December 2001 / Accepted: 30 January 2002/Published: 20 February 2002

 

Abstract: The law of temporal hierarchies of the biological world allows us to pick out of the biomass quasi-closed thermodynamic systems within a specific hierarchy. The use of this law of Nature as applied to supramolecular structures of organisms allows us the opportunity of using the methods of equilibrium supramolecular thermodynamics in the examination of open living systems. It has been proven that the second law of thermodynamics in its classic formulation is easy to apply to specific aspects of living systems in order to make calculations, carried out through methods of chemical, supramolecular and overall hierarchical thermodynamics.

Keywords: Second law of thermodynamics, Law of temporal hierarchies, Supramolecular thermodynamics, Biological thermodynamics, Aging.

 

AMS Mathematical Subject Classification: 74A15, 80-06, 80A50

PACS: 05.70.-a, 64, 82.60.-s, 95.30.Tg

 

 

"One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any

department of knowledge is to find the point of view from

which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity."

J. Willard Gibbs (1881)

Document Summary:

 

History

Received: 29 December 2001 / Accepted: 30 January 2002/Published: 20 February 2002

Subject

Bio-thermodynamics, physical chemistry

AMS

Codes
  • CODE: 74A15
    Generalities, axiomatics, foundations ofcontinuum mechanics of solids: Kinematics of deformation
  • CODE: 80A50
    Thermodynamics and heat transfer: Chemistry (general)
  • YEAR: 2002

PACS
  • CODE: 05.70.-a

     Thermodynamics: Applications in probability theory and statistics

  • CODE: 64                                                                                                                                                              

     Thermodynamics: Equations of state, phase equilibria, phase transitions

  • CODE: 82.60.-s                                                                                                                                                                   

     Chemical Thermodynamics

  • CODE: 95.30.Tg                                                                                                                                                    

     Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic processes, conduction, convection, equations of state

  • YEAR: 2002

Keywords 

Second law of thermodynamics, Law of temporal hierarchies, Supramolecular thermodynamics, Biological thermodynamics, Aging.

Doc type

Lecture series, seminar edition of EJMAPS

Edition

Electronic Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Conference/Seminar Edition [ISSN: 1538-3318]

 

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