Life Through Lightning

Let's switch gears from the earliest eons' hydrogen atoms and radiation to something more recent, like the last 3.5 billion years or so. Even though all the components needed to create the first cells, such as protein strands, glucose, etc., were present, how did the life process start even though these components were already combined? Benjamin Hess, Jason Harvey, and Sandra Piazolo of Nature Communications claim that lightning appears to be the cause of all of this commotion.

Earth's atmosphere was rife with lightning storms approximately a billion years after the planet's formation. A study that was released in March 2021 suggested that one of the billions of bolts that could have struck a body of water where all the chemicals had accumulated and congregated could have also released phosphorus from the ground, which would have begun the process of converting free protein into DNA. Hence, even if Mary Shelley's original novel is distorted by the usage of lightning in the Frankenstein adaptations, it would seem that this practice is more accurate to the true origin of life.