On the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

This paper examines the role magnetic‑monopole‑induced gravitational waves may have played in the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth. Building on earlier work describing monopole‑driven phase transitions between water vapor, liquid water, and ice, the paper shows that these transitions proceed through a common intermediate state involving a paramagnetic oxygen molecule bound to a monopole. When the gravitational wavelength reached 149 μm approximately 2.79 billion years ago, monopole‑induced gravitational waves became capable of dissociating hydrogen bonds in water and producing large numbers of transitional oxygen species. The paper compares the mass of these separated oxygen–monopole complexes with the mass of Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organisms on Earth, whose evolutionary origin is believed to date to roughly the same period. The paper also discusses how hydrogen‑bond modifications in cyanobacteria influence excitonic coupling in chlorophyll pigments, suggesting a possible link between monopole‑induced phase transitions and the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis. These observations raise the possibility that monopole‑driven gravitational interactions contributed to the initial appearance of aerobic oxygenation on Earth and may offer insights into future climate interventions involving phase transitions in atmospheric water vapor.