I think that might have been the deeper reason to talk about this mechanism:
Thermal currents through microporous labrynths have a remarkable capacity to concentrate organic molecules (including amino acids, fatty acids and nucleotides) to extreme levels, thousands or even millions of times the starting concentration, by way of a process known as thermophoresis. This is a little like the tendency of small items of laundry to accumulate inside a duvet cover in the washing machine.
Under this model, maybe during an exogenous(?) cooling cycle each pore gets ffillyed with “whatever it gets filled with” and then chemistry happens, and the reaction somehow becomes exothermic and so the fastest chemistry sprays back out into the medium, and so there is more of the faster/hotter chemistry for the next time “chemicals are being caught in pores like socks in a duvet cover”?
I think that might have been the deeper reason to talk about this mechanism:
Under this model, maybe during an exogenous(?) cooling cycle each pore gets ffillyed with “whatever it gets filled with” and then chemistry happens, and the reaction somehow becomes exothermic and so the fastest chemistry sprays back out into the medium, and so there is more of the faster/hotter chemistry for the next time “chemicals are being caught in pores like socks in a duvet cover”?