LIFE AND COSMIC DYNAMICS

Recent experiments have shown that the mass of a thermodynamic system partially composed of living matter can go increasing with the increasing of the numerical order of material changes happening in physical space. This peculiarity means that space plays an active role into life; it is difficult to explain in the usual conception of thermodynamics, because it occurs even when the system taken under consideration is isolated. By contrast, it seems to be more easily understandable through an extended conception which consists in connecting the classical laws of thermodynamics with the Einstein mass-energy relation. This extended thermodynamic conception can be utilized to provide a coherent interpretation both of the evolution of inert matter and of the evolution of living organisms. The evolution of inert matter towards higher entropy and the evolution of living organisms towards smaller entropy can be seen as parts of a one universal process