This is the beauty of life. As of today, we know that this beauty doesn't exist anywhere in any other universes, galaxies, and whatever other nouns we have in physics. It is fundamentally despicable to destroy this beauty for gastro-intestinal pleasures. Stop killing our fellow life partners on this beautiful blue planet.
“I think Gánti has thought deeper about the fundamentals of life than anybody else I know”
Hungarian born biologist Tibor Ganti's model of the simplest possible living organism, which he called the chemoton, that points to an exciting explanation for how life on Earth began.
The origin of life is one of science’s most perplexing mysteries, partly because it is several mysteries in one. What was Earth-like when it formed? What gases made up the air? Of the thousands of chemicals that living cells now use, which ones are essential—and when did those must-have substances arise?
Perhaps the hardest question is the simplest: What was the first organism?
Chemoton, Gánti’s concept of the simplest possible living organism: genes, metabolism, and membrane, all linked. The metabolism produces building blocks for the genes and membrane, and the genes exert an influence over the membrane. Together they form a self-replicating unit: a cell so simple it could not only arise with relative ease on Earth, it could even account for alternate biochemistries on alien worlds.
“Life is not proteins, life is not RNA, life is not lipid bilayers. What is it? It’s all those things hooked together in the right organization.”
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