Quantitative Nonequilibrium Pathway

Quantitative Nonequilibrium Pathway from Fundamental Physics to the Emergence and Persistence of Exoplanetary Biospheres

arXiv:2606.02648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a physics-based framework that runs from fundamental interactions and constants to biospheres, using a sequence of quantitative nonequilibrium thresholds ("gates"). Each gate is an inequality in measurable variables-free-energy flux, reaction-transport rates, replication fidelity, coding capacity, ecological closure, and climate feedback gains. Crucially, the gate vector is anchored in fundamental physics: dimensionless constants,...