This paper is a pure physical theory paper. Its object of study is the phenomenon of life; its deductive tools are three known physical laws—the second law of thermodynamics, Newton's first law, and Ohm's law. Proceeding from these three laws, this paper deduces the complete set of necessary behaviors of a specific physical system—the carbon-based carrier—with the deductive results covering the full spectrum of life phenomena from vesicles to civilization. Neutralization Destiny is the enforcement of the second law of thermodynamics in the charge degree of freedom—all things irreversibly tend toward charge neutralization and minimum energy. Memory Inertia is the synergistic effect of Newton's first law and Ohm's law on the carbon-based carrier—maintenance is automatic; change requires external force; and which path the current maintains is the result of pathway self-reinforcement. Electrochemical Lift is the sole external intervention possessing both vector direction and charge selectivity—the sustained injection of exogenous electrochemical potential gradients, pulling the carbon-based system out of dual lock and propelling it into an ordering process. The synergistic action of these three laws sequentially unfolds vesicles, RNA, DNA, micro-reaction networks, internalization of pulsation, and the emergence of life on the carbon-based framework. The transition from Type I Memory (dynamic inertia) to Type II Memory (spatial complementary locking) provides the physical substrate for Darwinian evolution: inertial screening is the material possibility condition for natural selection to occur. This paper proposes the Battery Model of Life—vesicle as capacitor, metabolism as charge-discharge cycles, DNA as inertial template. The Life Force Equation, Ψ = E + M − N, is the conceptual framework of this three-way game; its function is to demarcate the state partitions of the carbon-based ordered state—birth, health, aging, overload, Energy-depletion Death, and Inertia-locked Death—rather than to provide quantitative computation of specific numerical values. The equation further reveals that death is not a single event, but the unified description of two physically distinct terminations. From the micro-reaction network in the primordial soup to the global power grid of human civilization, all are the sequential unfolding of the same set of physical laws at different scales. This paper presents a complete falsification statement, listing each core assertion of the framework together with its falsification conditions. This paper is positioned as a conceptual framework, aiming to provide an integrative perspective complementary to existing experimental research.
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