Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think we will. It’s still a useful analogy for initial understanding. However, I think we should be clear that it’s not quite perfect. Just like we have to be careful about bringing a Newtonian understanding into quantum physics where someone might believe a photon has mass because it has momentum.