Could There Be a Form of Life Inside Stars?
Brian Koberlein, Universe Today | Phys.org | Sept. 11, 2020
There has been plenty of speculation about alien life.
. . . and I’m not saying there hasn’t been . . .
Much of it has centered on life that isn’t carbon-based.
Could Titan have nitrogen-based life, where methane replaces the role of water?
Could silicon serve as the fundamental element?
Would organisms depend on sand the way plants on Earth depend on carbon-rich soil?
Could organic life survive in the cold depths of space, perhaps on icy comets in the Oort cloud?
But there are some, often writers of science fiction, who have explored even wilder ideas for life. In the 1980s, author Robert L. Forward proposed a form of life based not on atoms, but atomic nuclei. In “Dragon’s Egg,” he described a species known as the cheela, who lived on the surface of a neutron star. Because nuclear interactions occur at a much faster rate than atomic chemistry, the cheela civilization moves from simple tools to advanced technology in the span of a month.
(Huh. Another name that would be rejected as too improbable for a science-fiction writer.)
Yes, but without atomic chemistry, could the cheela ever evolve something equivalent to Raquel Welch? Inquiring minds want to know.
This reminds me of “The Galaxy Being”, an episode of the original Outer Limits.
Trance Gemini!
She looks like a nice person.
From the article:
“Could silicon serve as the fundamental element?”
WE were friends when she was on facebook, and she is a very good person.
Ask a stripper.
The Horta was a silicon-based life form. And Vulcans have copper-based blood.
So there are a couple of precedents 20 years older than this 80s Johnny-come-lately.
Oppo,
One of my favorite authors.
All of the questions you say, ad verbatim from old sci/fi, are relevant but I doubt will have an answer soon.
It’s the question itself and how it is worded that skips the meaning of it and thus we get to go down the rabbit hole of what and how and why.
No thank you.
That hobbles the mind.
Does that help you? or is it that your mind is looking to shut all the faucets of your head?
Edwin Bahten