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A better grasp of the physical foundations of life is necessary before we canunderstand the processes occurring inside a living cell. In his physical theoryof the cell, American physiologist Gilbert Ling introduced an important notionof the resting state of the cell. He describes this state as an independentstable thermodynamic state of a living substance in which it has stored all theenergy it needs to perform all kinds of biological work. This state ischaracterised by lower entropy of the system than in an active state. However,Ling's approach is primarily qualitative in terms of thermodynamics and itneeds to be characterised more specifically. To this end, we propose a newthermodynamic approach to studying Ling's model of the living cell (Ling'scell), the center piece of which is the non-ergodicity property which hasrecently been proved for a wide range of systems in statistical mechanics [7].These approach allowed us to develop general thermodynamic approaches toexplaining some of the well-known physiological phenomena, which can be usedfor further physical analysis of these phenomena using specific physicalmodels.

The Significance of Non-ergodicity Property of Statistical Mechanics Systems for Understanding Resting State of a Living Cell