so in the begining there were gases and stuff like hydrogn. overtime cuz of gravity they came together and made new stuff like oxygen. but all these were non living gases so how did things like FUBA or Ameba come from
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Firstly *we don’t know for sure* but there are some plausible steps for which we have varied levels of research.
It might also be worth bearing in mind that nonlife/life is a somewhat vague and arbitrary human designation and that living things are created from non-living all the time now though in ways that couldn’t happen back then.
But basically the organic compound building blocks of life are common in the universe , useful chemical reactions commonplace where there is energy and if you put these together you get more complex ingredients for something like RNA. At the same time we have fats that can naturally form ‘bubbles’ that can encase these things and begin to form the first proto cells and allow certain types of transmission across the barriers.
Purely as just a matter of interest I remember Prof Brian Cox saying that it seems like very basic cells happened relatively quickly once the conditions on Earth had calmed down a bit … it was the event of one ‘eating’ another and both surviving that then created the sort of complex cells we have now that took a long time.
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