"From a physicist’s perspective, no complex system is weirder or more challenging than life. […] The atoms you’re built from today won’t be the atoms you’re built from in a year. […] The real challenge for physics is that the patterns that make up life are self-organized. Living systems both create and maintain themselves in a strange kind of loop that no existing machine can replicate."

1️⃣ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/physics-life-reductionism-complexity/685257/

2️⃣ Without paywall: https://archive.is/ebpti

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The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

^{Adam Frank (The Atlantic)}