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Life and the world of solution based fusion/weak chemical fusion
 
  Imagine for a moment, the hostility of the world of boiling oceans, toxic volcanic gases and ultra-violet light that was the world in which the first prototype lifeforms emerged. Such hellish conditions are difficult to imagine, let alone the credible possibility of sustainable life being possible. Yet these are just some the obstacles that the prototype cells on planet Earth achieved. (We will discuss life on Earth in more detail in Chapter 16)  
  Before describing the definition structure and behaviour of cells, let us begin with the more general concept of understanding the challenges surrounding the general stability of complex molecular shapes in a molecular ocean environment.  
12.7.1 Stability of complex shapes and their dependence on the stability of environment  
  An obvious, yet crucial understanding discussed in Chapter 9 is that complex molecules depend entirely on the existence of relatively stable molecular solution environments- usually in liquid form. In the case of hydro-carbons, this means a high proportion of water molecules.  
  Unlike strong chemical fusion, weak chemical structures can only exists within a very narrow band of temperatures and pressures ( normally around -200 degrees Celsius and 200 degrees Celsius, with optimum temperature being around 10 to 60 degrees Celsius)  
  When temperatures vary substantially away from these ranges, weak chemical based structures performance drops substantially.  
  In other words, take away the stability of the molecular ocean and complex shapes beyond Level I (e.g. sugars, amino acids etc) are impossible to be formed.  
  In the tumultuous world of early Earth, the instability of molecular oceans would have caused complex molecules to be destroyed and reformed countless times, due to the instability of the general environment.  
12.7.2 Problem no#1- how do you create a stable environment?  
  How then could molecules then aggregate to form some way of at least guaranteeing some stable environment in which to maintain their shape?  
  The only answer is to create an enclosed environment- literally a mini-ocean, a mini-universe in which conditions could be insulated from the external het and col, while inside the conditions could remain relatively stable.  
12.7.3 Problem no#2- how do you guarantee the sustainment of the specialized solutions and knowledge of chemical reactions  
  It is one thing for molecular structures to twist and bend to their environment, to exist at the whim of the stability of their molecular world. It is another thing entirely when colonies of molecules began to employ the benefits of a specialized-co-dependent and enclosed world such as cell.  
  The odds of other molecules self aggregating beyond the level of amino acids, sugars and fats into cells naturally diminishes each and every time the internally developed environment becomes more complex. Without some means of "memory"- a system enabling a step-by-step replication of the same methods of construction, life on Earth and other worlds in the Milky Way would never have evolved beyond proto-bacteria.  
  To solve the memory puzzle requires more than just one solution- it requires:  
 
(1) memory storage
- a system for storing a literal chemical construction code (tri-system DNA
- a system for storing the applications and usages of what has been constructed (not yet discovered/decoded);
 
 
(2) read/write function
- a system for up linking and downloading information regarding chemical construction;
-a system for up linking and downloading information regarding usage of what has been constructed
 
  This was achieved by the DNA molecule. We will discuss DNA and the memory system of cells later in this chapter.  
12.7.4 Problem no#3- how do you ensure the key molecular reactions essential for providing building blocks (food) without destroying the environment?
  Like any enclosed environment, from a galaxy of 200 billion stars to a planet, to a microscopic membrane enclosed molecular ocean, the problem of food supply and conversion (suitable chemical reactions) is a central problem.  
  While the creation of a membrane, a means of protecting the inner world from the outer world in some way guaranteed general stability, it nonetheless created a further challenge- how to modify molecular structures to meet demands of the inner world?  
  At one level, weak chemical fusion allows some means of construction. But it is at the level of strong chemical fusion ( hydrogen exchange) where molecular structures are fundamentally altered one atom at a time ( a cells basic food).  
  Without this capacity- cell worlds must rely completely on the outside world for their existence- This is what the most primitive cells had to do- a balancing act in terms of being close to regions of strong chemical fusion, but sufficiently protected in terms of multiple boundaries to ensure the cell was not destroyed by the temperatures of several hundred degrees C associated with strong chemical fusion.  
  The problem is not unlike the challenge of how to put a car engine into a structure that includes highly inflammable structures under high temperatures. Both a car engine and a cell rely on the same process ( strong chemical fission/fusion) for its basic function. But to a cell, such a chain reaction within a single membrane environment would literally burn up the cell- as exhibited when flesh is placed into a strong chemical fission environment when exposed to a naked flame.  
  If this challenge hadn't been solved by life billions of years ago, the only life on planet Earth and the galaxy would still be single cell bacteria- feeding off the strong chemical power of volcanic vents.  
  Thankfully, one of the two main groups of cells solved the problem- by enclosing a cell within a cell- thus creating a double, even triple membrane environment in which to tap into a constant engine of strong chemical reactions thereby-  
 
(a) protecting the cell from destroying itself
(b) producing the required reaction
(c) without the apparatus producing the reaction from also destroying itself.
 
  We call these cells within cells mitochondria and chloroplast's and they are fundamental to the survival of all cells found in plants and animals. We will discuss both mitochondria and chloroplast's further into this chapter.  
12.7.5 Problem no#4- how do more than one cell create a cohesive relationship?  
  While the guarantee of chemical memory means the future of one cell is possible, there is the underlying fortis- the fortis of creation we have identified with the other laws of UCA operating at every level. Cells, like atoms, like Unita wish to form more complex relationships in their own universe.  
  The problem cells had to overcome was developing a common language- a means by which synchronicity can be achieved. The answer ( as we will discuss in more detail later in this chapter) is beautifully simple and practical- a chemical language that:  
 
(a) uses the common building blocks (food for cells) as a elements of a language;
(b) links food and reactors from a very simple level to a complex level of proteins;
(c) enablers powerful direction to change production of components, mitochondria performance and DNA function- a set of keys to accessing different parts of DNA.
 
  We call this common language "hormones"- the basic language of various molecular shapes and sizes that enables more than one cell to operate in a more complex community- from plants to animals, from fish to human beings.  
12.7.6 Problem no #5- How to guarantee the survival of the complex cellular community- the organism  
  Once a means of communication is established, there is then the problem of how a complex community of cells- (unique collection of cellular molecular intelligence) is able to guarantee its survival?  
  Just as we see the prime laws of UCALEX in operation via prime fortis, cells in a complex community also specialize- some become factories, while others become protective guardians such as skin, scales and bones. Others still become transporters. While one group willingly give up their own life to save others (T-cells and killer cells of the immune system).  
  Specialized co-dependence- two prime UCA laws of creation in enaction. We will discuss these Specialized roles of cells that all communities of cells possess later in this chapter.  
12.7.7 Problem no #5- How to guarantee the survival of the complex cellular community- the organism  
  Finally cellular communities face the problem of how to co-ordinate language ( hormones) to co-ordinate pro-active behaviour of the cellular community- motion, digestion, chemical defence's for example.  
  This is where the specialized cell called a neuron becomes fundamental to the function of complex cellular communities. We will discuss neurons in detail in chapter #13.  
 
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