>>2266052>Can life begin inside a jar out of nothing but dust?If abiogenesis is real, maybe, but we don't know anything whatsoever about how common it is, under what conditions it can occur, and how viable that life is on any timescale, and how long it takes for it to manifests itself into something that looks like life to us.
For a real world "jar of dust" experiment, check out the Miller–Urey experiment. It has shown that amino acids can spontaneously occur from simpler compounds, but how can they spontaneously form proteins? And if yes, how likely are these random proteins to form an actual organism?
