Team discovers a new approach to unveil the Origin of Life: Evaporation
What is the origin of life? It is a question that has consumed the work and time of scientists for centuries. Recently a group of researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has shed light on the possible ways forward to examine how living things are formed.
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A physical process that brings different chemicals together.
reading that, cheers
i’ve had a hunch for a while, that emergent order, early replicative structures (non living) was the outcome of more ‘condensative’ processes, or on the ‘cooling’ side of thermal gradients if you will, structure is embedded that way
transition said:
i’ve had a hunch for a while, that emergent order, early replicative structures (non living) was the outcome of more ‘condensative’ processes, or on the ‘cooling’ side of thermal gradients if you will, structure is embedded that way
It makes sense, its a part of the bigger picture, life would probably not happen if there was no movement. We have energy and chemicals that come together from movement, rain tends to move things apart, evaporation brings things together. Life’s algorithm would have evolved from that soup of non living chemicals. Something like that.
This is an extremely fascinating and quite possibly very important study. Formation of micelle-like compartments in evaporating droplets on a silica substrate.
Here is the original paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23410-7
> Formation of micelle-like compartments in evaporating droplets on a silica substrate.
We’ve already had the formation of double-layer bacterial-size compartments present in deposits on the electrodes of a Miller-Urey type experiment from the mid 1970s.
They’re taking a long time to play catch up.
mollwollfumble said:
> Formation of micelle-like compartments in evaporating droplets on a silica substrate.We’ve already had the formation of double-layer bacterial-size compartments present in deposits on the electrodes of a Miller-Urey type experiment from the mid 1970s.
They’re taking a long time to play catch up.
But now they’ve developed the conditions to reliably reproduce it.