Three new papers released on April 21st 2022 by a team of physicists and biologists create a new vision for bringing living biosystems into the framework of fundamental physical laws, with far-reaching implications for how we view our planet within its cosmological context.
We — cosmologists Marina Cortês and Andrew Liddle from Lisbon, biologist Stuart Kauffman from Seattle, and physicist Lee Smolin from Waterloo, Canada — have been working for three years to bring to fruition the vision of a new scientific discipline, which we name Biocosmology, that brings modern thinking about biological systems into a physical, and even cosmological, context.
Our zoom press conference, which took place on April 21st 2022 featuring team member Marina Cortês at Everest Base Camp, Nepal, where she is on route to an Everest summit climb during May 2022, can be viewed again here.
Paper 1. Biocosmology: Towards the birth of a new science. ArXiv link.
Paper 2. Biocosmology: Biology from a cosmological perspective. ArXiv link.
Paper 3. The TAP equation: Evaluating combinatorial innovation in biocosmology. ArXiv link.
Background article by Marina Cortês and Edward McGovern for the Institute of Art and Ideas.
Latest Talks:
Oxford Philosophy of Physics - April 17th, 2023
6 minute intro at Google Mountain View - May 20th 2021
Author contacts: Marina Cortês: mvcortes@ciencias.ulisboa.pt and Andrew Liddle: arliddle@ciencias.ulisboa.pt
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See the full advance press notice, published April 17th 2022, here.