April 2020
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In the transition from inanimate-to animate systems in (pre)-biological evolution, clay minerals may have played a crucial role. The current conjecture is that this was due to their structural organization leading to absorption, selection, and protection of organic biological precursor molecules, promoting the polymerization of precursor molecules to the essential macromolecules of life. In this paper, we postulate that clay minerals may pose superconducting properties and after energization, produce discrete electromagnetic quantum oscillations that exhibit a semi-harmonic frequency pattern, and that their vibratory activity yields a guiding role in creating 3-D conformational structure of macromolecules. We hypothesize here that, through this property, clay minerals are candidate to initiate the first stages of origins of life and contain an informational quantum code. It is shown that such clay minerals are able to support quantum coherence and entanglement, as described by a proposed quantum wave equation, that was derived in our previous studies and is in line with Fröhlich's theory of long-range coherence. In our model an aspect is added, by finding an analogy between electromagnetic spectra of life molecules/cells and typical clay materials. Each of the major classes of cellular components, such as proteins, lipids and DNA, exhibit distinct IR-spectral frequencies similar to such clay materials. Therefore, coherent quantum wave interferences are proposed, within a frequency range from Hertz till GHz. Smectites probably act as quantum replicators and are able to copy the frequency band spectra of nucleobases, amino acids, nucleotides and biomolecules at rates of up to 80%. Consequently, such minerals can mimic the characteristic NIR, MIR and FIR wave patterns with life sustaining frequencies, including sequence information, as found earlier in cells, biomolecules and intact organisms. 2