A new proposal suggests that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, potentially rewriting notions of time and evolution. Researchers propose a law where entities are selected for richness in information enabling function, challenging traditional views and sparking debate about its testability and implications for understanding the universe.
Sorkin and colleagues have derived an equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics for living systems, which establishes a relation between such a cell’s active uptake of energy and its random-looking path in terms of entropy production.
