07-05-2023, 07:04 AM
Thanks @TqB - the triple alpha process involves the conversion of 3 helium nuclei into a Carbon nucleus. For various complicated reasons, this is a hugely improbable reaction that nevertheless happens due to a set of exceedingly lucky circumstances, and makes the synthesis of heavier elements possible. It's one of those finely tuned balances of nature that makes one wonder if we live in the simulation of a game designer creator in a higher universe. Or indeed, an old fashioned god of some sort.
Polynucleotide chains (referring here to DNA) is just an extension of how the improbably formed carbon, oxyen, and nitrogen link up even more crazily to form the molecules or life. And ATP is just a way of linking back energy release at the organic level to the energy release of the sun. It's not that well thought through, just things that suggest themselves one after the other when you think of these topics.
Polynucleotide chains (referring here to DNA) is just an extension of how the improbably formed carbon, oxyen, and nitrogen link up even more crazily to form the molecules or life. And ATP is just a way of linking back energy release at the organic level to the energy release of the sun. It's not that well thought through, just things that suggest themselves one after the other when you think of these topics.