Interesting article. Thanks for making me aware of it. Not quite life, but definitely a step in the process from chemical reactions towards life. Eric Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 4, 2026, at 4:57 PM, Tim Eck via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > I get the impression that they demonstrated that it forms both > spontaneously and, more rapidly, with itself as a catalyst. Together, I > think that defines the origin of life, or at least *an* origin of life. > The rest is just evolution. > >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM Steve Marak via pbs < >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: >> >> Tim, thank for posting that, off-topic or not, as I hadn't seen it. I'll >> be sharing that link with some friends (a couple of whom are biologists). >> >> I'm not a biologist or anything close, I just follow this stuff. For >> what little it's worth, my interpretation would be that this is not a >> breakthrough in understanding the origin of life, as it doesn't propose >> anything not previously theorized or show any discovery in existing life >> that would invalidate or refine current theories. But it is significant >> because it shows a simple working version of something needed in those >> theories. Not proving that's how it happened, which we may never know, >> but helping show it could have happened that way. >> >> Steve >> >>> On 4/4/2026 8:04 AM, Tim Eck via pbs wrote: >>> Sorry for the off-topic post but I don't know any biologists personally. >>> Is this article saying something groundbreaking about the origin of life? >>> Or is this state of the art knowledge? >>> https://science.org/doi/10.1126/… >>> Thanks >>> Tim >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pbs mailing list >>> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >>> https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >>> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >>> PBS Forum latest: >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum latest: >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…