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The origin of life from primordial planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2010

Carl H. Gibson ,
Rudolph E. Schild  and
N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
Carl H. Gibson
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA e-mail: cgibson@ucsd.edu
Rudolph E. Schild
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA e-mail: rschild@cfa.harvard.edu
N. Chandra Wickramasinghe
Affiliation:
Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, 24 Llwynypia Road, Lisvane, Cardiff CF14 0SY, UK e-mail: NCWick@gmail.com
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Abstract

The origin of life and the origin of the Universe are among the most important problems of science and they might be inextricably linked. Hydro-gravitational-dynamics cosmology predicts hydrogen–helium gas planets in clumps as the dark matter of galaxies, with millions of planets per star. This unexpected prediction is supported by quasar microlensing of a galaxy and a flood of new data from space telescopes. Supernovae from stellar over-accretion of planets produce the chemicals (C, N, O, P, etc.) and abundant liquid-water domains required for first life and the means for wide scattering of life prototypes. Life originated following the plasma-to-gas transition between 2 and 20 Myr after the big bang, while planetary core oceans were between critical and freezing temperatures, and interchanges of material between planets constituted essentially a cosmological primordial soup. Images from optical, radio and infrared space telescopes suggest life on Earth was neither first nor inevitable.

Keywords

Cosmologyastrobiologyprimordial planetsdark matter
Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 83 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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