I would like to suggest that the prebiotic chemistry might have been passed through an
activation function that disappeared after life was on its way to evolving.
The problem, then, of answering the question of how life began is one of finding the activation
function and its mechanism by which it takes prebiotic chemistry and activates it (makes it alive)
so it can now self-replicate, and evolve. We assume that as this mechanism activates the
molecules, its mechanism depletes as it activates from what is available. In this sense the
mechanism is a limiting reactant, so it determines how much material is activated before it
depletes completely.
Logically, the way to determine what this mechanism is, and how it serves as an activation
function is to look for the by products of the reaction that are left over, and from that, deduce its
nature.
To do this, we have to look for that thing in our knowledge of the Earth’s history that does not
make sense. This would be in the faint young star paradox. We know that five billion years ago,
when the Earth and Sun first formed, that the sun was 0.7 times its present output and so, the
Earth should have been frozen over, yet, we know it was not. That it had water in its liquid
phase. Thus something was there that is not present today. That something must have been the
mechanism for the activation function that “turned on” prebiotic chemistry.
If is the activation function, where is the prebiotic material, and we say is the residue of
the reaction, and is the activated substance (life) then,
We know . If we can find in nature, we can deduce .
I have presented it like this because 1) Life has not been created in the laboratory from scratch
2) New life does not seem to be originating on earth in present times. Therefore, the activation
function is probably not present on Earth today and more than likely disappeared, or depleted
after activating prebiotic chemistry. Life exists, yet we do not know how prebiotic substances
organize into self-replicating systems that evolve. Therefore, we must look for something
concerning the Earth that does not make sense. I suggest that would be the young star
paradox. If the Earth had water in its liquid phase when it should have been frozen over, then
something could have existed then that was a limiting reactant, or something like it, that
activated prebiotic substances, in that it was responsible for warming the earth (perhaps a heat
retaining substance).
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