Does evolution violate every law of physics?

Question

for every action there is an opposite reaction said einstein. evolutuion is an action..but i don't see the reaction..?

Answer 1

I refuse to believe anyone including you would believe what you just wrote. You wrote 2 sentences and nearly everything in them either made no sense or was incorrectly referenced. A cat running across a keyboard would have made more sense.

Answer 2

Evolution is a theory, not a single action. The Newtonian law of equal and opposite reaction is part of the larger Law of the Conservation of Matter and Energy, which states that the matter and energy in the universe is fixed, i.e., not increasing or decreasing. Energy is neither gained nor lost, but Maxwell's equations of thermodynamics would tell us the amount of entropy in the universe is increasing. Entropy is what drives the energy of chemical reactions. Thus, the reactions become more favorable and proceed to a state of greater stability, i.e., lower energy. But the energy is fixed...so obviously there are some entropically unfavorable things going on out there...organization, complexity (or chaos). It is too simplistic to reduce the idea of evolution to an impossibility simply because you can't see the reaction in a complex system. Evolution is a complex system within the complex universe. If you want to be conceptually on a line with your idea, one might say that extinction and neoteny might account for these "reactions" in evolution.

Answer 3

"Does evolution violate every law of physics?"

Nope. Not a single one.

"for every action there is an opposite reaction said einstein."

Newton. Not Einstein.

"evolutuion is an action..but i don't see the reaction..?"

Could say the same for god (but won't, it's too stupid a statement).

Answer 4

You don't think this stuff out very well do you? First of all, Einstein was talking about the effects of velocity and mass. Has nothing in any way to do with evolution. Can't be even applied. Second, evolution, it is theorized, is a reaction to environment and the challenges to the survival of a species. Oh, excuse me. Evolution is a reaction, just not to an action.

Answer 5

Sorry. Evolution is not an action. It is a process, a complex series of interactions. Evolution is not a group of elementary physics particles or a baseball falling on a curved trajectory. You can't bring cats to a dog show and expect to win...

Answer 6

I don't think that you can apply Newton's laws to evolution, and definitely not in the way that you just tried to. Ask this in the science section for a definitive answer.

Edit:
Einstein did the theory of relativity, while Newton's 3rd law is the action/reaction one.

Answer 7

Einstein didn't say that.

Newton said "For every force acting on an object, the object will exert an equal, yet opposite, force on its cause." Force here is defined as mass * acceleration. It doesn't have to do with actions.

Answer 8

That's not Einstein's quote.

And this question can be understood by reading a high school biology and physics book

Answer 9

the action vs. reaction law is in reference to energy, not living organisms and evolution.

If you still want to put it into those terms....

Evolution would be the reaction of a living organism, to a changing environment and natural selection.

Answer 10

Ignorance is not a good base for asking questions.

And No, evolution violates no known laws of physics. If it did, we would have to invent a god to make evolution possible.