Sublime

For example, the law of conservation of energy, a fundamental principle of physics first described by Julius Robert von Mayer in 1842, tells us that energy in an isolated system, such as earth’s biosphere, can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another.

Martin Bojowald, Once before Time, is one of the most recent proponents of this approach.2

“The energy that flows through a system acts to organize that system.”

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp had stumbled upon the fact that all living things, from the most basic of single-celled plants to the most sophisticated of organisms like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons—tiny particles of light.15