how hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen create “life”

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how hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen create “life”

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Life is basically just a self-sustaining chemical reaction. Back in the 1950s they did an experiment with mixing a bunch of gases/compounds that were proposed to exist during early Earth (ammonia, sulfur dioxide, methane, etc), exposing them to electric arc (lightning), heating, etc. They produced many different amino acids, which are the basic building blocks of proteins.

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