Origin of life · Frontiers of knowledge

SIMULATING THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

▸ Loading the early-Earth chemical soup (~4 billion years)…

▸ Building the Miller–Urey flask + electric sparks

▸ Folding an RNA strand into a self-catalyzing ribozyme

▸ Opening an alkaline hydrothermal vent + proton gradient

▸ Self-assembling a lipid-membrane sac · reconstructing LUCA

▸ ⚠ Note: the FULL path is NOT solved — only hypotheses

▸ Ready — Online. ✅

Complexity ladder

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Hypothesis—

Product formed—

Step reached—

Conditions—

Evidence—

Complexity level—

The honest boundary

Science does NOT yet know EXACTLY how life began. Each step (making bricks, polymers, self-replication, membranes) has been shown feasible on its own in the lab — but the full chain linking them all is still an open question. These are competing hypotheses, none confirmed.

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Pick each "Hypothesis" (Miller–Urey / RNA world / Vents / Protocell / Panspermia / LUCA) — each scene changes the mechanism · click a concept to see "demonstrated / not yet known"

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Chemical complexity rising step by step molecules → polymers → self-replication → cell