THE MAGIC WORD: CATALYSIS!

About him, too, a little later.

An argument that has been going on for many centuries, if not millennia: What did life come from?

Some “experts” claimed that they were made of dead matter, and they made such ridiculous arguments that they were easily or hardly defeated by opponents who claimed that any form of life (on Earth) had its progenitors. Depending on the level of knowledge at that time, some won, and their victory was immediately elevated to an eternal dogma, then others, and, of course, this victory also became an obligatory dogma that could not be questioned.

In the book of the good and conscientious but mediocre compiler W. Sullivan, “We are not alone,” there are even several chapters devoted to this, which I found unbearably boring from listing all the apologists involved in the topic in the past and present, scientists and just well-wishers eager to say something about it.

However, it came as a funny surprise to me that the author mentioned the name of Jules Michelet, whom, out of laziness and ignorance, I considered a poet. (Based on a piece of information about him in Andre Mauroy’s article on “Overly active widows.”)

It turns out that he was a famous historian who wrote the multi-volume works “The History of France” and “The History of the French Revolution.” Judging by the second one, he is a complete fool and a chauvinist who mistook the ordinary heinous pogrom of the French rabble (ah, sorry, “the rebellious French people” -rabble) of the aristocracy and, in general, many educated people of France, for some kind of “revolution” in the minds of the “people”. There was and could be no “consciousness” and no “people”!

JUST VILE RABBLE OF SCUM!

It is impossible to calculate how many talents and scientists were killed under the guise of “fighting counterrevolution”, as in the case of a similar pogrom in Russia in 1917.

When Lavoisier was arrested and about to be executed during the years of the French Revolution, several scientists appealed to a high-ranking official in the “revolutionary hierarchy” with a request not to execute the outstanding French scientist, to which this official replied:

“The revolution does not need scientists!” and Lavoisier was guillotined!

With the same stupid brutality, Russian criminal slaves also killed the Russian intelligentsia, labeling them “Bourgeois-CONTRA.”

“There is a bourgeois at the crossroads

And he put his nose in his collar,

And next to it, his fur is hard,

He’s a lousy dog with his tail between his legs.

The bourgeoisie stands like a hungry dog,

It stands silent, like a question.

And the old world, like a rootless dog,

She stands behind him with her tail between her legs.”

“Lock the doors,

There will be robberies today!

Unlock the cellars –

There’s a naked people-rabble make feast today!”

A Block, Twelve

“And you, Blok, are going there too?!”

No single “HERD QUAKE” has ever changed anything in the essence of the hierarchical herd. Some climbed over the corpses to the upper levels of the hierarchy, others were dragged off by their feet, slashing at their throats with a knife, but the herd was and remained a stupid, angry herd of slaves who had let loose for a while, and did not become a society of free people.

So, it turns out that this historian Jules Michelet decided to study the history of the origin of life on Earth (because he wrote books on natural science) and proved that life originated in a drop of seawater rich in nitrogen, from a piece of mucus or “fertile jelly”, which over the next 10,000 years turned into insects, and after 100,000 years in monkeys and humans! And this nonsense enjoyed great confidence and universal acceptance in France in the middle of the nineteenth century!!

A mental leap into our time.

I also succumbed to this stupid tendency to ponder the history of the origin of life on Earth.

Stupidity is contagious!!!

But I took my spiritual father and teacher Stanislaw Lem as my guide!

And Lem, with his talent and logic, immediately put everything in its place.

In his wonderful book “The Sum of Technology”, already at its very beginning, in the second chapter “Two Evolutions” and in the paragraph “Differences”, he writes that from the point of view of probability theory, it can be assumed that if peptides could have appeared in the primordial ocean, a kind of nutrient broth from already formed amino acids, then the accidental formation of biocatalysts – enzymes, absolutely impossible! And without them, there can be no organisms. For example, 30,000 enzymes “work” in our body, each tuned to its own strictly specific reaction, and it is only thanks to them that we live! So, Lem says that if a huge nutrient ocean and billions of years were enough for the emergence of proteins and other things, then millions of such oceans and hundreds of billions of years would not be enough for the spontaneous accidental synthesis of enzymes!

At first, I agreed with Lem.

But the question remained:

THEY CAME FROM SOMETHING! HOW???

A little later, I came up with a workaround: Temporal Waves carrying the barcode of the process THAT GAVE RISE to THEM, and penetrating this broth ocean, could cause the synthesis of enzymes in the presence of the original molecules that joined under their influence. I believe in the existence of Temporal Waves because they explain “too much” and too “Naturally” in phenomena that cannot be explained by science.

But there is one catch: In order to initiate such a process of enzyme synthesis on Earth, THESE TEMPORAL WAVES must have already appeared somewhere in such a process! That’s why I proposed them as the material basis of Svante Arenius’ idea of “Panspermia”.

That is, again, a clever trick of running away from the main issue.: HOW DID THEY ORIGINATE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNIVERSE, enzymes, even if not on Earth, but arose?

There was no answer!

And today such a thought flashed by, even two at once.

The magic words are: TWO–PHASE CATALYSIS!

Let’s assume that somewhere, maybe on Earth, there was already a mixture of heterogeneous molecules that had already appeared by chance, from which it would be possible to synthesize some individual, not thousands or hundreds, but the first single enzymes. Let’s imagine that such a reaction by itself, purely by chance, CANNOT begin in ANY way, but in a certain underwater rock among this nutritious broth, there were some chemicals, metals, their oxides or salts, which just acted as a CATALYST for this necessary reaction and immediately under its action the first enzyme appeared, what is necessary to create a kind of LIVING cell from a broth. And then, thanks to this catalyst, there were many such cells, and all of them were slightly different, since the chemistry of the broth was slightly different, and the temperature, and the gases dissolved in it, and lightning struck in more than one place, and the radiation was also different…

Further is better: In these cells themselves, other enzymes began to be synthesized not PURELY by CHANCE, but purposefully. Contributing to their better existence and fission.

And the more different cells there are, the more DIFFERENT ENZYMES synthesized in them.

Catalytic two-phase synthesis of biocatalysts-enzymes. At first, it was random, but POSSIBLE thanks to external catalists, and then, inside LIVING cells, it was purposeful!

That’s how the enzymatic beginning of cellular life turned out!

Faciant meliora potentes.

If I’m wrong, let my seniors correct me!

20 I 2026