The Principle of Life

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This book attempts to answer the thousand-year-old question: what is life, and it does this in an unusual manner quite different from the present attitude of biologists. The theory described —the so-called chemoton theory —is sometimes compared with the revolutionary discoveries bringing about new chapters in the history of science (Newton, Copernicus, J. von Neumann), and sometimes it is categorically refused. The reader may form his or her own opinion about the whole concept, if not about the professional details of chemoton theory, since the author in this book omits these details together with the mathematical equations and leads the reader through the main ideas in a well readable and interesting manner. In the meantime, the reader learns in what the different scientists saw the secret of life, what is it that separates the living from the non-living, how is it possible to produce machineries, self-reproducing machineries and even program-controlled self-reproducing... Tovább

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This book attempts to answer the thousand-year-old question: what is life, and it does this in an unusual manner quite different from the present attitude of biologists. The theory described —the so-called chemoton theory —is sometimes compared with the revolutionary discoveries bringing about new chapters in the history of science (Newton, Copernicus, J. von Neumann), and sometimes it is categorically refused. The reader may form his or her own opinion about the whole concept, if not about the professional details of chemoton theory, since the author in this book omits these details together with the mathematical equations and leads the reader through the main ideas in a well readable and interesting manner. In the meantime, the reader learns in what the different scientists saw the secret of life, what is it that separates the living from the non-living, how is it possible to produce machineries, self-reproducing machineries and even program-controlled self-reproducing machineries from mere liquids, etc. And if someone thinks it to be impossible, those who are not satisfied by the logical chains of thoughts or those who want to learn also the professional details, are referred to the two-volume professional monograph of the same author, to "The Chemoton Theory", in which the exact mathematical proofs hidden behind the far-flung logical derivations of this book are also provided.
This book has been published until now in 6 editions, in 3 countries, and there is also a hope that it will live up to more editions in further languages. Vissza