Show possibility that life proe processes ases may have started by pure chance by DR D W SWANN philadelphia science heretofore has always felt that everything that happened could lie be traced to some cause which in tu turn rn always had a definite effect but wo we now know that the results of many amy purely physical phenomena such as the transmission of heat depend upon wlm what science inadequately calls laws of probability which is just another name for chance or luck either one acce accepts p ts the view of creation handed down bythe by the bible or else tile tho scientist nods his head and says lie he cannot answer the q question fuestion ue stion life processes process ea may have started by pure chance As a matter of fact even the subconscious belief prevalent among phy physicians that laws of chance as introduced into their own subject were merely makeshifts for something more fundamental has in t the b e capt pap A year received a severe blow for in the most modern development of atomic structure the old idea of the universality and definiteness of the laws which control the acil actions ions of the ma bosl af fi fundamental entity in all physics the alie electron have had to give way to laws of chance no longer do we say that if tin an electron finds itself in an electric field a certain co consequence nse quence w will ill definitely follow we say only that there la is a probability that dint such rind and such will take place no longer do we rest in in the belief that the velocity of an electron will remain constant so long as it is not under the influence of an electric field it may suddenly change its state of motion from being at rest it may suddenly decide to move about like a dog tired of inaction all that this moans means to tho the layman is that science by chanc emay run into the secret of synthetic life without now flow even knowing anything about its start there is no te telling ailing how soo soon D or 11 how ow long before something may li tippen to open the volume to the right page |