Life is a biological hack against the laws of physics
In short: The universe naturally trends toward chaos, yet life thrives by defying this decay. This video explores how biological systems have spent billions of years engineering ways to resist entropy.
Entropy represents the constant increase of disorder in the universe—a fundamental principle of physics. However, life functions by systematically 'hacking' this process through its unique chemical makeup.
By maintaining complex structures against the inevitable pull toward randomness, living organisms demonstrate a sophisticated biological strategy to sustain order over billions of years.
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