I've been wondering if the distribution and composition, location, type and size, etc of the Earth's tectonic plate boundaries; magnetic polarity of the Earth's crust; and or how/when/where exactly the Late Heavy Bombardment hit our home planet's surface may affect the abiogenesis theory.
I could be wrong, but it seems like you first need to create an advanced experiment or simulation of the early Earth's radioactive and slowly-or-quickly-cooling crust, the late heavy bombardment, plate tectonics, the smallest known particle scale, and a whole slew of other factors before you can even begin to better understand abiogenesis.
I know it would take an unimaginable amount of computing power, time, and money, but if you truly want to solve this conundrum, you would be willing to do anything and everything to solve it like simulating or experimenting with the many different chemical/etc properties, magnetic polarity, etc of the Earth's outermost layer as well as taking different kinds of planetary plate tectonics into account.
If we can figure out how to simulate a whole planet, or at least part of one, down to the nanoparticles, electrons and protons, or quarks, we might be able to finally solve this mystery. Maybe the crust had created some kind of filter that only allowed certain types of particles through the outermost layers of the Earth's crust into hidden caves and it created layer upon layer of organic compounds that eventually created life.
Or, perhaps, the magnetic polarity, properties, the exact way that the plate tectonics originated, etc somehow designed particles in such a random lucky way that it created a self-replicating molecule or nanostructures. Maybe it was the crust that created the first proto-life.
Maybe it was kind of similar to my attempt to tell a fictional story about how a rocky or metallic world helped create nanostructures in such a way that the first nanobot assembly lines were made which gave rise to natural robots, or something.
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