David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life. QUANTA MAGAZINE Website: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuantaNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/6FnWj. David Kaplan is a theoretical particle physicist at Johns Hopkins University and a producer of the award-winning documentary Particle Fever. Filming by Tom Hurwitz and Richard Fleming. Editing and motion graphics by Tom McNamara. Music by Podington Bear. Learn more about this new physics theory of life: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication launched by the Simons Foundation.