The doctrine of the biosphere and the noosphere was formed as a result of what was done by V. I

1.3 Space - the time of life in the biosphere
Space and time - the two main forms of moving matter - in the works of VI. Vernadsky was a strategic goal, some "Super-task" of his natural philosophy. The depth of penetration into the structure of the surrounding reality and the wide historical coverage of the consideration of each of its aspects could not but lead the natural scientist to find the fundamental properties of reality, which are most fully expressed in terms of space and time.
Time and space do not occur separately, they are inseparable. We do not know of a single phenomenon that would not occupy parts of space and part of time. For logical convenience only, we present space and time separately, just in the way our mind has become accustomed to acting when solving a question. In fact, neither space nor time separately, we do not know anywhere else but our imagination. What are these inseparable parts - what, obviously, that only exists - is matter, which we divide into two main coordinates: space and time.
As soon as a naturalist asks himself how space and time manifest themselves in individual levels of organization of moving matter, he cannot avoid answering the question: do their specific features change in these particular forms or remain stable. As you know, there are two possible answers, each of which is associated with a particular historical tradition. The first of them originates from Newton, in whose theory space and time are absolute and independent of the movement of material formations. Space is only an infinite receptacle of bodies, and time is some kind of unified world clock, against the background of which events of all scales exist and occur. From this point of view, the biosphere and life, despite the fact that it represents a fully defined level of organization of matter, loses all quality, their specificity is not taken into account and they dissolve into absolute generality like a disappearing little.
According to the second tradition, whose origins lie in Leibniz's natural philosophy, space and time are inalienable attributes of matter. It makes no sense to argue about the existence of space without the very bodies of nature and about the time before the formation of bodies. Space is the order of arrangement of material formations, and time is the order of their following.
It is in the mainstream of this second system of views that the nature and nature of Vernadsky’s research lie. In his writings, the biological level of motion of matter receives its specific space-time certainty. He believes that time begins its report from the moment of the creation of the biosphere. “We are talking about historical, geological, cosmic, etc. times. It is convenient to distinguish the biological time within which life phenomena occur.
This biological time corresponds to one and a half to two billion years, during which we have known the existence of biological processes on Earth, starting with Archeozoic. ”
Now the life of the biosphere almost coincided with the age of the planet itself as a cosmic body (about 4.5 billion years). This confirms the foresight of Vernadsky about the geological eternity of the biosphere. And, accordingly, a deeper layer of his thoughts about biological time came to light: based on the general methodological framework for the attribution of space and time, one can say that before the biosphere emerges there is no time reference, for biological time should be considered the main determining duration in the biosphere. From this follows a logical conclusion opposite to the Newtonian tradition: not life exists against the background of space and time of the immense Universe, but the Universe against the background of the time of life. In other words, the customary, which became the unnoticed air of science and everyday knowledge, is a self-evident idea, according to which life appeared at a certain moment of an already passing time, this concept is subjected to a deep rethinking by Vernadsky. The time we are used to, i.e. irreversibly unidirectional, associated with progressive evolution and flowing in ourselves, as beings partly belonging to the biosphere, is real and true, the duration of most lifeless processes cannot be raised to the rank of time to avoid confusion.
In biospheric processes, as in no other natural phenomena, subject to observation and accurate research, the main qualitative signs of the time are most fully and clearly manifested: irreversibility and unidirectional sequence. The biosphere never returns to its former state. The engine of its irreversibility is its biological component, continuously and consistently evolving from the past to the future. The reason for its movement is the ability of living matter to transform solar energy. Some of it, falling on the surface of the earth, no longer returns to world space, but transfers to other forms of energy, accumulating in the biosphere.
This is a global process, without stopping for a moment, it is billions of years old. It serves as the material and energy substrate of the flow of irreversible biological time.
The sharp difference of biological time from all its other forms is based on distinctive, bright, but not amenable to a satisfactory explanation to the satisfactory explanation of the features associated with a purely biological level of organization of matter, namely, irreversibility and unidirectional progressiveness. Both these qualitative characteristics of biological time and the peculiar nature of biospace characteristic only for living allowed Vernadsky to make an empirical generalization about the specificity of biological space-time.
In the study of the biosphere, the key concept is the notion of organization of the biosphere, in which living matter acts as a function of the manifestation of the biochemical energy of organisms. It allows to organize the abiotic components of the biosphere through the information processes, which constitute, apparently, the essence of the functioning of living matter.
In the biosphere, which as a whole is a bio-axial body, living matter, which is incomparable to inert weight and volume, controls the material and energy processes of the surface shell of the planet, forming its own, independent of other times, time - space of life.
Coming to the idea of ​​invariance of space and time of life, Vernadsky considered not only their qualitative aspects, but also their quantitative ones. He explored possible approaches to determining the own time metrics associated with life processes. In philosophy, everyday knowledge, it is considered that the passage of time is indefinable in and of itself, elusive. You can only find a process that will help mark the passage of time.
Vernadsky connects the metric of time with the division of the organisms themselves, with their reproduction, as the most vivid manifestation of biochemical energy. The rhythm of this, as the scientist said, of dividing - dividing, is set by the speed of passage of individual indivisible lives and the entire biosphere. The most clearly identifies the factor of time of formation in the division of microorganisms, which have a stable reproduction rate. “The change of generations,” wrote Vernadsky, “is a peculiar biological manifestation of time, sharply distinguishing one living substance from another, with a different scale for each comparison. It is possible to find a common scale for them. ” If we take the scale in question, then it is necessary to recognize that the time of the biosphere is a stream consisting of quanta through which every living cell passes.The very possibility of cell division is due to the existence of a quantized time at the subatomic level, the presence of a portion of time, the least of which does not happen and with which the living measures, part of space by a certain metric step. Such a composition and structure of space-time determines the power of biospheric time flow, which corresponds to the number of simultaneously dividing and living cells of living matter.
From the purely philosophical side, the Leibnian tradition of the attribute of space and time was explored by many. V. Muravyev came closest to such a formulation of the problem of space and time. Here, for the first time, the question was raised about changing the form of the manifestation of time depending on the progressive development of moving matter. And although the argument is conducted at the level of the most abstract categories, it nevertheless contains real meaning. If there is development, then it cannot but affect the change in the form of time, which cannot be in a given, frozen form once and for all. If time is a component of all world forces in the most average form, the philosopher believes, then among them should be active elements that change the structure of time.
The science of our day is characterized by increased attention to the problems of space and time. And the most powerful onslaught of biological space - time. It is easier than other times, if they exist as a reality, and not just a mental construction, it can be measured. And in this sense, the concept of a quantum of biological time more fully separates the quality of the biological form of the movement of matter from other manifestations. It helps to better understand the phenomenon of life and outline the prospects for further research.