Nick Lane: How Life Emerged from Chemistry on the Ocean Floor
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 167 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nick Lane is a biochemist, a writer, and a professor at University College London, |
| 0:04.3 | whose book, Transformer, exposits on the origins of life not being so heavily contingent on RNA as many think, |
| 0:10.7 | but instead in something called the Krebs cycle. |
| 0:13.6 | Poetically, you can think of this as the difference between an information theory of life, |
| 0:17.8 | which is the current dominant view, to one of the thermodynamic energy flow of life, |
| 0:23.7 | which is Nick Lane's view. As usual, click on the timestamp in the description to skip this |
| 0:27.9 | intro. My name is Kurt Jymungle. I'm a Torontoian filmmaker with a background in mathematical physics, |
| 0:33.4 | and this channel is dedicated to the explication of the variegated terrain of theories of everything. |
| 0:39.3 | That is, primarily from a theoretical physics perspective, so for example, grand unification and quantum gravity, |
| 0:46.3 | but as well as understanding the role consciousness has to play to the fundamental laws, provided these laws exist at all in a form knowable to us. |
| 0:53.3 | Two quick announcements. |
| 0:54.4 | Firstly, there's a physics and consciousness contest on this channel. |
| 0:58.1 | The link to which will be in the description as well as the thumbnail is over here. |
| 1:01.2 | Essentially, it's the physics version of the three blue one brown math contest, |
| 1:05.1 | except ours is for physics and consciousness as well. |
| 1:07.6 | If you have an idea for some explainer of an advanced physics or consciousness |
| 1:11.3 | concept, then think about creating a video for this and submitting. As you have the chance to win |
| 1:16.0 | $1,000, brilliance has come in to give $5,000 among the top five, so that's $1,000 for each. |
| 1:21.2 | The second announcement is that there's a new theories of everything.org website. This is a website |
| 1:26.9 | where you can support Toh slash Kurt, |
| 1:29.4 | which is me, instead of on Patreon because Patreon takes a huge cut, as well as PayPal takes a cut. |
| 1:35.3 | There's many different places that take their share. And as a creator, you don't have |
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