The Physical Laws of Life's Origin: An Independent Deduction Based on Neutralization Destiny, Memory Inertia, and Electrochemical Lift

Abstract

Modern life sciences have accumulated immense knowledge about how carbon-based life works, yet the question of physical necessity—why carbon-based life must be the way it is rather than otherwise—has remained largely unaddressed. This paper proceeds from three known physical laws—the second law of thermodynamics, Newton's first law, and Ohm's law—and introduces a set of physical concepts to describe the special dynamical features of carbon-based living systems: Neutralization Destiny (the specific mode in which the second law executes upon carbon-based carriers), Memory Inertia (the physical memory capacity conferred upon carbon-based systems by the pathway self-reinforcement of charge flow), and Electrochemical Lift (the driving force that sustains the system's nonequilibrium state through the continuous injection of exogenous electrochemical potential gradients). Based on these concepts, we derive the self-organization of vesicles, RNA, and DNA, the emergence of a self-sustaining micro power grid, and the physical basis of heredity and evolution. This paper further demonstrates that Darwinian evolution itself has a physical foundation: memory inertia provides the material condition for variation to be retained; the memory phase transition provides the physical mechanism of heredity; environmental selection determines which locked templates persist. Darwinian evolution is not replaced by this derivation; it is given a physical substrate. The derivation introduces two unifying concepts: the maintenance condition for carbon-based ordered states, expressed as Ψ = E + M − N, and the dynamic-to-static memory phase transition. All core deductions are accompanied by specific falsification conditions. This paper is an independent deduction from known physical laws together with the introduction and definition of a set of physical concepts; detailed derivations for specific physical structures and applications are presented in dedicated companion papers.