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Is there an elephant in the room of research on the origins of life?
                    Helen Greenwood Hansma, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, questions if there is an elephant in the room of research when it comes to the origins of life.                 
            Mechanical energy at the origins of life
                    Did mechanical energy power life’s origins before chemical energy such as ATP was available?                
            

![Is there an elephant in the room of research on the origins of life? Figure 1: Ratios of the concentrations of Sodium ions [Na+] and Potassium ions [K+] in water on land and in the sea vs in living cells and in blood.](https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Fig-1-218x150.png)

