The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022:
I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge? We still are none the wiser, but it’s still the most fascinating question… What seems impossible now is…to gain an insight into what Life is… We know, kind of, the constraints life operates under, but we don’t have any idea of…how decisions are made… Life sort of violates…[the second law of thermodynamics] by using energy…to actively counteract the growth of entropy and to build ordered structures… What’s driving life? … If we think in a bigger picture, where are we going? … How do you attempt to model a system like that which is complex in the middle and extremely simple at the two ends, small sclaes and very large scales?1
—Neil Turok
Notes:
1. Brian Keating, Into the Impossible Podcast: Why Neil Turok Believes Physics is in Crisis, 2022-10-02, https://youtu.be/Dt5cFLN65fI&t=774. Accessed 2023-10-31.