Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach

Gündüz G

Publications

• Review Article
  Biospheric Energization
  Author(s): Budding E, Gündüz G, Ozel ME and Demircan OBudding E, Gündüz G, Ozel ME and Demircan O
  
  We discuss a physical model relating to the origin and development of lifelike processes, paying particular attention to the continual growth of systemic energization and complexity from very simple beginnings. To approach recognizable life forms in the terrestrial case, we refer to a molecular (‘ABC’) process consisting of the following elements: A -- a molecular structure that can temporarily stores a local energy excess; B -- a catalyst that, making use of the local energy excess, catalyses also itself, and comes in a small number of slightly different forms involving different reaction steps; C -- a disposable tool molecule that assists and tunes the response of the A and B molecules to the (time-dependent) local source of energy. This local source of energy is external to the ABC system, and we take it to be solar photons (or a comparable flux from a solar-like star)... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2332-2519.1000128

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