Abiogenesis and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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conundrum is the matter- antimatter asymmetry. A simple explanation could be the
symmetry characteristics of Eqs (8.6) and the equivalent form including gravity,
remembering that there appear the two-time directions each with a proper link to
spatial handedness. Matter spatially evolving forward in time, is by symmetry, paritylinked to evolving antimatter backwards in time, entangled via a QBH. Combining
two-time directions and two parity related space dimensions, imparts about 75%
hidden energy entangled with the preferred space-time through the QBH.
10 Conclusion
One might justly ask oneself whether the present undertaking and analysis should
be developed without referring to Schrödinger’s classic [102]. In the foreword of
the Canto imprint collection, Roger Penrose, like many of his legendary historic
predecessors in science, professed his penchant for the book’s impact on his life
and future thinking. Although being quickly outdated, shortly after its first edition
appeared in 1944, its focus expressed in the query: how can the events in space and
time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted
for by physics and chemistry? His prophetic anticipation just preceded the birth and
proliferation of a whole new profession of bio-molecular science. It begs no explanation to insert its legitimacy in the present narratorial, even if it has led to many side
tracks and crucial misinterpretations of the appropriacy of the realm, where quantum
mechanics reigns uncontested. The possible explanation of e.g. the genetic code, or
at the time of the publication of the classic, the storing and the communication of
information in complex molecular aggregates, within the demarcation of the second
law of thermodynamics, did not offer any justifiable inroads to the provenance and
evolution of learning processes.
Most thermodynamical treatments of biological systems do not explicitly consider
temperature and associated time scales. One interesting exception, in addition to the
work of England [48], mentioned in Sect. 3, is a recent study of Brownian motion
and the temperament of living cells [103]. Although not specifically oriented towards
quantum interpretations, its theoretical framework is the Nakajima-Zwanzig version
of the Liouville equation, providing the notion of cell temperament as a biophysical
parameter driving the motion of living biological entities, in close analogy with the
standard concept of temperature.
Although the second law of thermodynamics sustains that life could arise from
non-living matter, it is clear, as elucidated here, that it does not explain chemical
evolution or the appearance of abiogenesis. It does not yield a strategy or algorithm
in selecting a particular protein from an infinitude of specimen. Natural Selection, NS,
requires a fundamental physical principle that provides Nature with an indigenous
composition for Life. Our present formulation supports abiogenesis as an innate
process that is ingrained with the gradual transformation of non-living to living
entities.
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conundrum is the matter- antimatter asymmetry. A simple explanation could be the
symmetry characteristics of Eqs (8.6) and the equivalent form including gravity,
remembering that there appear the two-time directions each with a proper link to
spatial handedness. Matter spatially evolving forward in time, is by symmetry, paritylinked to evolving antimatter backwards in time, entangled via a QBH. Combining
two-time directions and two parity related space dimensions, imparts about 75%
hidden energy entangled with the preferred space-time through the QBH.
10 Conclusion
One might justly ask oneself whether the present undertaking and analysis should
be developed without referring to Schrödinger’s classic [102]. In the foreword of
the Canto imprint collection, Roger Penrose, like many of his legendary historic
predecessors in science, professed his penchant for the book’s impact on his life
and future thinking. Although being quickly outdated, shortly after its first edition
appeared in 1944, its focus expressed in the query: how can the events in space and
time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted
for by physics and chemistry? His prophetic anticipation just preceded the birth and
proliferation of a whole new profession of bio-molecular science. It begs no explanation to insert its legitimacy in the present narratorial, even if it has led to many side
tracks and crucial misinterpretations of the appropriacy of the realm, where quantum
mechanics reigns uncontested. The possible explanation of e.g. the genetic code, or
at the time of the publication of the classic, the storing and the communication of
information in complex molecular aggregates, within the demarcation of the second
law of thermodynamics, did not offer any justifiable inroads to the provenance and
evolution of learning processes.
Most thermodynamical treatments of biological systems do not explicitly consider
temperature and associated time scales. One interesting exception, in addition to the
work of England [48], mentioned in Sect. 3, is a recent study of Brownian motion
and the temperament of living cells [103]. Although not specifically oriented towards
quantum interpretations, its theoretical framework is the Nakajima-Zwanzig version
of the Liouville equation, providing the notion of cell temperament as a biophysical
parameter driving the motion of living biological entities, in close analogy with the
standard concept of temperature.
Although the second law of thermodynamics sustains that life could arise from
non-living matter, it is clear, as elucidated here, that it does not explain chemical
evolution or the appearance of abiogenesis. It does not yield a strategy or algorithm
in selecting a particular protein from an infinitude of specimen. Natural Selection, NS,
requires a fundamental physical principle that provides Nature with an indigenous
composition for Life. Our present formulation supports abiogenesis as an innate
process that is ingrained with the gradual transformation of non-living to living
entities.