Fwd: EPSC2013 - Abstract Submission Confirmation

[Edwin Budding]

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Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:11 PM
Subject: EPSC2013 - Abstract Submission Confirmation
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Dear Edwin Budding,

Thank you very much for your interest in the European Planetary Science Congress 2013! We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your following Abstract:

Biospheric energization and stability
by E. Budding et al.
submitted to AB5

Your Abstract has got the identification number EPSC2013-99. Please keep this number in mind for any further actions. It is possible to modify your contribution, but not later than 06 May 2013. Always available are the dialogues Abstract Withdrawal as well as Abstract Information where you can follow the review. Please use the links below for the different options.

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on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee Chair

[Edwin Budding]

Hi --

 

I think a point about the "ABC model", which was not really stressed in the

TJP article, is that the model has been essentially verified in practice.

Fig 1 of Powner et al (2009) demonstrates the A-process actually occurring

in the laboratory!

 

So "B-type" molecules definitely can catalyse A-types.

 

If we are prepared to accept the fairly general premise that life is,

or fundamentally involves, an autocatalytic process of some kind --

then the B-process (degeneration of AB compounds to produce

renewed B components) must occur to complete the cycle.

 

Powner et al speculate that urea is the fundamental B-type molecule

(on the Earth), but its exact identity need not concern us too much.

If ribo-catalysis occurs in the way demonstrated by Powner et al., then

there must be some B-type molecule (or molecules) that precede it.

 

In short, Powner et al's experimental result (and there may well have been

more since 2009), together with autocatalysis, substantiates the ABC model

experimentally.  So it is not just "theoretical" (as suggested by Dr Strasdeit).

Perhaps our poster article can start off by making this point...(?)

 

Best wishes,

Ed

[Mehmet Emin Ozel]

ed,
this is indeed a good point to follow.
did you make any revision in the abstract along the suggestions you make?
may 6 (today) is the last date for such a  revision.
if so, can you forward the lates version of the abstract?
mehmet

 

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Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:17:57 +1200
Subject: [ÇOMÜ Astrobiology] Re: EPSC2013 - Abstract Submission Confirmation
From: ed.bu...@gmail.com
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