作者: Janusz Slawinski
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0373-4_9
关键词: Photon emission 、 Exchange interaction 、 Physics 、 Biological organism 、 Atomic physics 、 Open system (systems theory) 、 Quantum mechanics 、 Dynamic equilibrium 、 Photon 、 Entropy (arrow of time)
摘要: Biological organisms are open systems as they exchange energy E, information Inf and mass m with their environment (Fig. 1). They achieve the degree of spaciotemporal order (infrastructure) necessary for survival through flow metabolic free ΔG. To maintain this a steady-state (a dynamic equilibrium) requires that rate entropy S production inside system dS i / dt is balanced by external e shown in Fig. 1: