Life as an Extension of the Planet: The Early Earth as a Thermodynamic Oscillator and Mechanical Dissipation in Prebiotic Abiogenesis

Current models of prebiotic abiogenesis often rely on static hydrothermal or surface environments where the primary limiting factor is the thermodynamic energy barrier for the growth and division of early vesicles without modern enzymatic machinery. This paper introduces a novel mechanistic model of the early Earth acting as a macroscopic non-linear oscillator. We demonstrate that the internal energy of the early planet (accretion heat, radioactive decay, and massive tidal deformations during the Hadean and Archean eons) dissipated not merely via steady conduction, but through periodic, high-frequency mechanical and hydrodynamic pulses. Applying Ilya Prigogine's principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, we model how these pulses transferred shear energy to microscopic fatty acid systems. The proposed mechanism involves the transient opening of membrane pores, the creation of an internal molecular trap via monomer polymerization, and the subsequent generation of internal osmotic pressure that accelerated membrane growth and dictated the geometric fission (division) of vesicles. This work is supported by a numerical Python simulation, confirming that this self-organizing dissipative loop exhibits significantly higher entropy production compared to a static, non-living solution, rendering it a thermodynamically favored evolutionary pathway.