Fig. 1: The concept of “the mitochondrial canary”.

Life is clearly electrical, a principle that was likely engrained from the origins of life where the movement of charge may well have resulted in a kind of self-organising and dissipating flux capacitor. The earliest lifeforms were prokaryotes, and the strongest theory at the moment suggests that eukaryotes arose when an Archaean underwent symbiosis with a bacterium, which later became the mitochondrion. This would suggest that bioelectricity and EM fields are fundamental to life, hinting that quantum mechanics may help to understand how it works, especially if exposed to unusual environments. The role of gravity could be particularly important in structural organisation. Figure created in Microsoft PowerPoint.