The order of life

As life grows, it develops enormouseconomies of scales, from the perspective of energy consumption. İn virtually every species, the metabolic rate is increases on a scale three-quarters that of mass. this simple equation could describe cows and humans and elephants and mice. Subsequent researchers discovered a series of related equations, all of which also revolved around quarter-power exponents, e.g. calculating animal's life span by raising its mass to the 1/4 power. Hence, the end result is that every living creature gets about a billion heart beats worth of life.

'İ couldnt believe that biologists hadnt thought more about this' West, a physicist says. Adding that laws like this arent accidents. They are telling us something very deep about th order of things.

Enquist discovered that hte same scaling laws also fit many different plants. By looking at all sorts of crazy statistics and analyzing the data on urban infrastructure reseearchers found that social orgs like cities also behave similar. They get more economical with size. This means that a city can double its populsation without doubling its resource consumption. Conclusively a doubling of population lead to a more than doubling of creative and economic output. Further research found that cities are like elephants. They get more economical with size. One of the basic principles of cities is that it is more efficient to bring people together(SEED, The Living City, Aug 2007).

When people are gathered together in places that lets them interact with each other, they create an entirely new form of life.

With this view the conventional wisdom that landscapes are more environmentally efficient is wrong. Hence, people who live in densely populated places are living environmentally-friendly lives !!!

The idea can be developed for ageing population, whose pattern of consumption narrow as they grow older, thus, using less energy and becoming more economized in their regular works.



'Life is a peculiar state of affairs'

İnstead of of trying to formulate a definition of life, we need to develop a theory of life - A theory of life would let us see connections that we might otherwise miss.

İt may be useful to focus on Milestone rather than to focus on a definition of life. Whether something is alive or not is more a matter of degree (The meaning of life, SEEDA Aug 2007).

He not busy being born is busy dying: Bob Dylon


Life is movement with purpose, charged with indepth meanings amd mysteries. The purpose of movement in life represent growth, progress, and sustainability. (by me)