The Radiowave Synthesis in the Droplets of a Thunderstorm Cloud as a Precursor of Photosynthesis

摘要

Oparins's coacervate droplets (Oparin 1924) have long served as a prototype of primary microbial cells that appeared in the Earth 4 to 4.5 bil-lion years ago. At present, this concept is only of historical value because its constructive principles were formulated in the 1920s in terms of classical ther-modynamics. According to the modern views, the transformation of chaos into order and the appearance of complex molecular structures are possible only un-der conditions far from thermodynamic equilibrium. However, no new paradigm commensurable with Oparin's idea of the natural origin of life has been formu-lated so far for these conditions, and the heuristic role of a coacervate droplet still remains attractive. This paper advances the hypothesis stating that low-molecular-weight organic compounds, precursors of living cell components, may be synthesized from inorganic oxides in the presence of alternating electromag-netic field as an energy source.