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Sean Carroll did a great podcast with Nick Lane. Highly recommended for anyone who wants an easy to understand, yet into the weeds discussion on Lane's metaboli

• pas 4y ago
  https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/23/198-nick-lane-on-powering-biology/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/23/198-... (transcript too) also on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZ_CVu2M68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZ_CVu2M68
  • pmayrgundter 4y ago
    Around 35m he says the structure of a cell has a distant reflection of the structure of a planet. First, cell membranes channel electrical charges between external acidic environment with interior basic environment to catalyze hydrogenation of hydrogen on a carbon skeleton. Well, that's succinct. But also, that layering is perhaps a recapitulation of acidic oceans on top of basic on top of basic mineral floors, so that cells have the same schematic layout as oceans on planets, with the sea floor as catalytic membrane. Beautiful