More exactly, we find the metabolism feature of life we attribute only to the biological which appears to be a metapattern found in the physical as if the physical establishes the guidelines for the biological. We can frame our response from the perspective of the nature of reproduction which would entail that each of the seven conditions above are met. 7 Outperforms inanimate matter Life differs from non-life in that living things reproduce. Yet, this is what happens between one wave length and the next. The importance is that hydrogen, air, and water molecules, etc.
Air remains air.
Water remains water. They remain constant. Their bonding angles remain the same as do all their physical properties. They reproduce themselves that many times per second. Due to gravity, galaxies tend to condense into spherical masses later producing black holes or supernovas.