(ËvÉr bÉl) adj. 1. of or consisting of words: verbal ability. 2. spoken rather than written; oral: verbal communication. 3. concerned with words only, rather than with the ideas, facts, or realities expressed: a purely verbal distinction. 4. corresponding word for word; verbatim: a verbal translation.
Life is the process that resolves these disequilibria.. The water world theory suggests that the warm, alkaline hydrothermal vents maintained an unbalanced state with respect to the surrounding ancient, acidic ocean - one that could have created two chemical imbalances. The first was a proton gradient, where hydrogen ions were concentrated more on the outside of the vent's chimneys.
Nasa's theory suggests life originated in warm, alkaline springs in Earth's ancient oceans NASA/Reuters Nasa have explained a theory which answers one of our biggest questions: How did life on Earth began? A new study from researchers at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed the water world theory as the answer to our evolution, which describes how electrical energy naturally produced at the sea floor might have given rise to life.