Cell-like space charge configurations formed by selforganization in laboratory

TL;DR

This paper presents a phenomenological model demonstrating how self-organization in laboratory conditions can produce cell-like space charge configurations with features resembling primitive life forms, based on local self-enhancement and long-range inhibition.

Contribution

It introduces a new phenomenological model supported by experiments showing the emergence of life-like structures through self-organization in gaseous media.

Findings

Formation of cell-like space charge configurations observed

Configurations exhibit primitive life features immediately after formation

Model supported by laboratory experiments

Abstract

A phenomenological model of self-organization explaining the emergence of a complexity with features that apparently satisfy the specific criteria usually required for recognizing the appearance of life in laboratory is presented. The described phenomenology, justified by laboratory experiments, is essentially based on local self-enhancement and long-range inhibition. The complexity represents a primitive organism self-assembled in a gaseous medium revealing, immediately after its "birth", many of the prerequisite features that attribute them the quality to evolve, under suitable conditions, into a living cell.