franklu

From the view of physics and chemistry, a life is no more than a kind of system with some interesting physical and chemical properties. In the lecture of the winner of Nobel prize of physics in 2004,David Gross,he presented 25 problems in future phyiscs. One of those questions asks, if there is some theorctical biology, if it have underlying conceptal structures,like physics, and if new mathematics is needed for the description of such theory. This is an very interesting question, isn't it? I'd like to regard a biological object as a physical system. But how can we understand the behavior of such a system? How can it evolve? How can we give a compact expression for the rules that govern the behavior of such biological systems in theory? Any guy got any idea?