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rooibos · 3961 days ago · link · · parent · post: A New Physics Theory of Life: Why does life exist?
This approach reminds me of another example of the use of the physics of biochemistry to explain why the fundamental structures of life spontaneously arise from "non-living" molecules: the stereochemical interpretations of genetic code formation, that the reason the genetic code is highly non-random and nearly universal among organisms is because "physico-chemical affinity between amino acids and the cognate codons (anticodons)" meant the combinations we see today were simply the lowest energy state these pairings settled into due to the physics of their structure back when the first "translation" occurred. More reading