If the key to the origin of life is a heat cycle that:
1. denatures h-bonded variants
2. rearranges and anneals these variants into better adapted molecules
then we have a lot of clues about the conditions when life began
For instance if we know the high and low temperatures of this cycle then that is a clue to the salt
concentration and pH - because both can effect the outcome.
For ex. "In pure water with no salt present DNA denatures at room temperature." Thus if we find that
the primordial temp cycle is very high and not near room temperature at all (as I suspect) then we
may have had more salt in the water.
Another ex. "pHs above 11.5 or below 2.3 lead to ... breakage of the H-bonded structure."
So if we know one of the three: temp/salt/ph it will help determine the other 2 and we can get a
good idea of the environment when life began.
Comment?
Tom Hendricks
The main points of my hypothesis are:
3. How life began as a reaction to the sun/UV and the thermal cycle of hot-dry-sun/cold-wet-night.
Then continued as an energy moderator with modification through descent.
4. The Four Options and how they relate to thermodynamics, biological classification, the first
cell, modification on all levels, psychological behavior of individuals and groups, inner
conflicts and a therapy of resolving them, etc.
5. Model showing relationship between adaptation fitness and natural selection. How it supports
punctuated equilibrium and the 'slope and plateau' model etc.
For a reader friendly summary see my arts/media website url for Musea issue#122
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Tom Hendricks, Hendricks Health Theory text files at <A
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g/~josh/hendricks.html (text #10 has a not-too-out of date summary)
Remember YOUR chemistry can't hide from MY sun.