From physics to biology by extending criticality and symmetry breakings

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Title: From physics to biology by extending criticality and symmetry breakings
Authors: Longo, Giuseppe, Montévil, Maël
Contributors: Montévil, Maël, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée (CREA), École polytechnique (X), Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'informatique de l'école normale supérieure (LIENS), Département d'informatique - ENS-PSL (DI-ENS), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis ISBN: 9783642359378
Publication Status: Preprint
Publisher Information: Elsevier BV, 2011.
Publication Year: 2011
Subject Terms: 0301 basic medicine, [SDV.OT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Other [q-bio.OT], [SDV.BBM.BP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics, MESH: Physics, Models, Biological, Physical Phenomena, 03 medical and health sciences, [SHS.HISPHILSO] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences, MESH: Biology, MESH: Models, Biology, 0303 health sciences, [SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, [SDV.OT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Other [q-bio.OT], Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences, Physics, [SDV.BBM.BP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Biological, MESH: Physical Phenomena, Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT), Quantitative Biology - Other Quantitative Biology, 3. Good health, Systems Integration, FOS: Biological sciences, Theoritical biology, MESH: Systems Integration, Molecular Biology/Biophysics
Description: Symmetries play a major role in physics, in particular since the work by E. Noether and H. Weyl in the first half of last century. Herein, we briefly review their role by recalling how symmetry changes allow to conceptually move from classical to relativistic and quantum physics. We then introduce our ongoing theoretical analysis in biology and show that symmetries play a radically different role in this discipline, when compared to those in current physics. By this comparison, we stress that symmetries must be understood in relation to conservation and stability properties, as represented in the theories. We posit that the dynamics of biological organisms, in their various levels of organization, are not "just" processes, but permanent (extended, in our terminology) critical transitions and, thus, symmetry changes. Within the limits of a relative structural stability (or interval of viability), variability is at the core of these transitions.
Written for the special issue "Systems Biology and Cancer", edited by Ana Soto and Carlos Sonnenschein; ISSN: 0079-6107
Document Type: Article
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Language: English
ISSN: 0079-6107
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.03.005
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5_7
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.1833
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.1833
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01192902v2/file/Longo-Montevil_2011_Extended-criticality.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21419157
http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1833
https://montevil.theobio.org/en/system/files/articlepdf/longo-montevil_2011_extended-criticality.pdf
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/1103.1833
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-35938-5_7.pdf
https://philpapers.org/archive/LONFPT-3.pdf
https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5_7
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1103.1833L/abstract
https://hal.science/hal-01192902v2/document
https://hal.science/hal-01192902v2
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.03.005
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DOI:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.03.005