#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

3699.884 - 3718.259 Sarah Walker

But if you think about the configuration space of that object, you know, it's exponentially large, how many possible molecules. So, like, why does the entire system collapse on just making that one structure? If you start from, like, you know, molybdenum atoms that are maybe just, like, a couple of them stuck together. And so what they see in this system is there's a few intermediate stages.