ok i will try not to be offending!!
Thank you.
Really, where do spherical bubbles come from? Where does any spherical object come from? Self-assembly?
And so are iron particles around a magnet. Are they self-organizing?
Yep, with a little help from a magnetic field.
I don't think so (that a cell has formed)
Oh. it's a cell alright, it's just not a living cell. That comes later when stuff gets into the cell.
Cellular? I disagree! Water or oil droplets are not cellular according to my personal opinion.
They try to be. They have an unbroken continuous spherical exterior surface, no?
The sphere is the strongest hollow pattern possible. Natural selection figured this out in millions of ways, billions of years ago.
The living cell is an evolved pattern from the right bio-chemicals which combined into a dynamic "protective" envelope.
In 1953, Miller and Urey attempted to re-create the conditions of primordial Earth. In a flask, they combined ammonia, hydrogen, methane, and water vapor plus electrical sparks (Miller 1953).
Note; just 4 molecules + energy .
They found that new molecules were formed, and they identified these molecules as eleven standard amino acids. From this observation, they posited that the first organisms likely arose in an environment similar to the one they constructed in their flask, one rich in organic compounds, now widely described as the primordial soup.
This hypothesis is further extended to the claim that, within this soup, single-celled organisms evolved, and as the number of organisms increased, the organic compounds were depleted.
Necessarily, in this competitive environment, those organisms that were able to biosynthesize their own nutrients from elements had a great advantage over those that could not.
Darwin!
Today, the vast majority of organic compounds derive from biological organisms that break down and replenish the resources for sustaining other organisms. And, rather than emerging from an electrified primordial soup, amino acids emerge from biosynthetic enzymatic reactions.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/an-evolutionary-perspective-on-amino-acids-14568445
Whatever humans can come up with in building structures, nature most likely has already been there and tried that. Humans use balls and baubles, nature used balls and baubles from the very beginning.
Natura Artis Magistra (Nature is the Teacher of Art (and Science).
If you see this a simplistic, it is because at this origination stage everything was simplistic. Nothing was complex yet, that came later, with abiogenesis things became complicated, but even here the incredible variety of patterns and biological expressions supports the notion that given sufficient time and space, the variety and complexity of expression may well reach near infinity. But not in the beginning. In the beginning everything is simple. Occam.
The most abundant first element was Hydrogen and guess what, all living things have hydrogen in common, from all the way back to the early universe. Same as Carbon.
Biology on earth is the product of 13+ billion years of evolutionary universal chemistry, culminating in Earth's astounding biological variety.
Did you know that organic molecules are created by radiation in cosmic clouds. Ask Louis Allamandola
Significant contributions made by the The Astrophysics & Astrochemistry Laboratory include:
Determining the mid- and far-infrared properties of over 800 PAHs in their neutral and charged forms under astrophysical conditions and making this collection available to the community at large (
www.astrochem.org/pahdb),
1. the demonstration that biogenic organic molecules can be made under the harsh, abiotic conditions in extraterrestrial ices implying they are widespread throughout the Galaxy and cosmos,
2. the recognition that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ions containing nitrogen are common in space, resolving long standing astronomical mysteries associated with infrared emission bands and optical absorption bands that are widespread throughout the universe,
3. the identification of many of the known molecular species frozen in interstellar/pre-cometary ices, and
4. the recognition that a significant fraction of the carbon in the interstellar medium is carried by both microdiamonds and organic materials.
- https://www.journals.elsevier.com/molecular-astrophysics/editorial-board/louis-allamandola
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