The inert vs. The living state of matter: Extended criticality, time geometry, anti-entropy - An overview

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 FEB, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Longo, Giuseppe ^a,b   Montévil, Maël ^c  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Allometry; Anti entropy; Biological time; Criticality; Incompleteness; Symmetry; Theoretical biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866278278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00039     Document Type: Article

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