The Battery Model of Life

The full complexity of the phenomena of life is unified into one intuitive physical model: the vesicle is a capacitor; metabolism is a charge-discharge cycle; DNA is an inertial template. Three chains—the vesicle membrane, the metabolic chain, and the informational template chain—lock into one another, constituting a self-sustaining micro power grid. External Electrochemical Lift continuously injects energy; Neutralization Destiny continuously executes recovery; Memory Inertia locks the pathways of charge flow into an ever more stable low-resistance network. The three game within a single micro-reaction chamber. When the rate of energy replenishment catches up with the rate of dissipation, the system enters the Electrochemical Counter-Neutralization Steady State—this is being alive. The Life Force Equation, Ψ = E + M − N, governs all states of life. Death is not a single event, but two physically distinct terminations: structural collapse caused by energy depletion, and pulsation freezing caused by inertia locking.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-05-12
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20133600
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Origins and Evolution of Life
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The Battery Model of Life

Menggang Yu
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Origins and Evolution of Life
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The Battery Model of Life

Menggang Yu
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Abstract

The full complexity of the phenomena of life is unified into one intuitive physical model: the vesicle is a capacitor; metabolism is a charge-discharge cycle; DNA is an inertial template. Three chains—the vesicle membrane, the metabolic chain, and the informational template chain—lock into one another, constituting a self-sustaining micro power grid. External Electrochemical Lift continuously injects energy; Neutralization Destiny continuously executes recovery; Memory Inertia locks the pathways of charge flow into an ever more stable low-resistance network. The three game within a single micro-reaction chamber. When the rate of energy replenishment catches up with the rate of dissipation, the system enters the Electrochemical Counter-Neutralization Steady State—this is being alive. The Life Force Equation, Ψ = E + M − N, governs all states of life. Death is not a single event, but two physically distinct terminations: structural collapse caused by energy depletion, and pulsation freezing caused by inertia locking.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Origins and Evolution of Life
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