Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life

... April 2, 2004 21:6 18 Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life Walter L. Bradley 1. introduction Darwin’s theory of evolution and the development of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Clausius, ... in the physical sciences similar to that of the theory of evolution in the life sciences. What is intriguing is that the predictions of one seem to co...

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... are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the I3P, ISTS, ... investigation and prosecution. We also briefly introduce the major themes covered in the five primary sections of the book. 1 Introduction Information is the lifeblood...

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... determined by the following data: (i) the intervals (I k ) 0≤k≤N/n 1  , (ii) the restriction of C to the union of the I k s, (iii) the values of C outside the I k s. Let us count in each case the number ... that ε is also an upper bound on the diameter of the support of the A i s. It is fixed, but can be taken arbitrarily small. Using Feynman’s heuristics, th...

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... that the cost of capital of the firm depends on four factors: the risk free rate, the aggregate risk tolerance of the market, the expected cash flow of the firm, and the covariance of the firm’s ... precision of these observations, γ j . Since the assessed variance of the firm’s cash flow is one of the components of the covariance of the...

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... middle of the worst drought of the twentieth century, Midwesterners took refuge in their homes as grit sandblasted the paint and pitted the glass on their automobiles. Leila swept red dust off the ... his grandfather in West Point, Warren could hear the background drone of the ravenous hoppers. At their worst, they consumed fence posts, the laundry on the clothesline...

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... concentra- tion of protons: pH ¼Àlog H þ ½: Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water. This behavior of water depends strongly on the temperature, ... atom’s core, the nucleus. The number of protons in a nucleus gives its atomic number and its positive charge. Add the number of neutron...

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... is that the greater the uncertainty of this distribution, the more we stand to gain fro m learning the outcome of the experiment. In the case of the Shannon information, this notion of how much ... concerning the nature of quantum information theory. In Part II, attention turns to the question of the implications of quantum information theory for our unders...

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