The scaling rule for environmental organizing systems in a gravitational field |
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Authors: | Fujiwara Noboru |
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Affiliation: | Department of Information and Computer Science, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan. fujiwara@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | A recent thermodynamics and information study examined the basis of a scaling rule for simple living organisms. The present paper examines a scaling rule for the relationship between the integrated scaled metabolic energy and the mass of a system for a wide range of masses, from animals to the 4He cores of main-sequence stars, considering the effect of gravitational energy. The expected specific scaled energy for animals and the 4He cores of main-sequence stars is 1600 times greater than the specific scaled energy for fundamental living organisms, such as unicellular organisms. This difference results from their organization in a gravitational field or the lack thereof. |
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