Introduction I have a theory for the star systems, the planets and their suns, wherein such
systems are solved with the Schrödinger wave equation that is used to solve atomic systems. The
result is that star systems and atomic systems, systems on the macro scales and micro scales, are
governed by the same underlying principles. It came to pass that this theory indicated an
overlap with biological systems indicating that biological life could be part of the same idea, and
that is what I hope to pull out of that paper and develop here.
The theory for the planets, which also predicted the radius of a proton, which is one of the
fundamental particles out of which matter is made, suggested that star systems which support
life are a part of a Universal natural process. One of the conditions for star systems that support
life made use of the interesting fact that has mystified science for some time now, that the Moon
is the right size and distance from the Earth that it nearly perfectly eclipses the Sun. The reason
a moon would be necessary for life to be optimally successful on a habitable planet is that we
know our moon that orbits our Earth, makes life here successful because it holds the Earth at its
inclination to its orbit around the Sun allowing for the seasons, thus preventing extreme hot and
extreme cold.
Interestingly, the solution for the planets of the Schrödinger wave equation, was quantized in
terms of the Earth’s moon, and a base unit of one second. The Moon seems to be some sort of a
natural yardstick. The strange thing is that the basis unit of time is one second and the second
was not developed with the planets and atoms in mind, so it is strange that it lands upon the
function of a natural constant in our theory. In the theory (An Abstract Theory of Reality,
Beardsley 2024) I talk a little about why that might be. The second came to us from the Ancient
Sumerians, who invented civilization with settling down from following the herds and hunting
with stone spearpoint to invent agriculture, metallurgy, writing, and mathematics. They had a
base 60 counting system, and found it convenient then to divide the Earth day (rotation period)
into 24 hours, which in the end became adopted by the world. Their base 60 counting resulted in
the Babylonians dividing the hour into 60 minutes, and that in turn into 60 seconds, and that is
how we have the duration of a second we have today. They chose base 60 (sexagesimal) because
60 is evenly divisible by so much from which they gave us the 12 hour day and 12 hour night or
24 hour day from sunrise to sunrise, sunset to sunset. 12 times 5 is 60, also 60 times 6 is 360,
they gave us the 360 degree circle as well.
In this paper I show that the same unit of a second that describes planetary systems and atomic
system in common describes hydrocarbons, the skeletons of biological life chemistry. I further
show that it predicts the atomic radii of the hydrogen and carbon atoms from which such
skeletons are made. Hydrogen and carbon are the most abundant elements in life chemistry,
carbon is the core element upon which life is made, and hydrogen is the simplest element,
element one in the periodic table of the elements, consisting of 1 proton, and is the most
abundant element in the universe by far, and plays the dominant role in all of chemistry. We will
see here that as much as the spacetime operators describe the solar system and the proton, they
describe the hydrocarbons as well, the skeleton of biological life chemistry. Further reason to
suggest life may be part of a Universal Natural Process.