Evolução cosmológica: relatividade espacial e a velocidade da vida

Cosmological Evolution: Spatial Relativity and the Speed of Life

Robert B. Sheldona and Richard B. Hooverb

aUSRA/NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL, USA;

bNASA/MSFC/NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL, USA

ABSTRACT

Three recent discoveries support the existence of an extra-planetary, cometary biosphere that is capable of spanning the galaxy: 1) the discovery of ancient cyanobacterial fossils on carbonaceous chondrites, which are widely believed to be extinct comets, 2) the observations and theory that all short-period comets have irreversibly dierentiated by melting and undergo periodic remeltings, and, 3) the observation that comets can accrete inner solar-system material, including spores from other infected comets. While no direct observation of sub-cellular, fossilized viruses exist, their ubiquity and proximity with cyanobacteria suggest that the proposed cometary biosphere also carries a full complement of bacteriophages. Recent work transcribing viral DNA of bacteriophages reveals an active horizontal transfer of genes though a vector that doesn't itself benet from the genes. Thus the cometary biosphere is capable of transporting genes throughout the galaxy that are not themselves expressed in space, suggesting that evolution may occur not just in time, but in space as well, making the Earth and its history less signicant for a cosmological theory of evolution. That is, evolution is driven not by innovation, but
by communication, albeit at a slow cometary speed and the transfer of a life ecosystem through a low bitrate channel can be modelled as a bootstrap process. Thus cometary evolution suggests that the history of earth represents the spatial relativity of a bootstrap process at the speed of life.

Keywords: comet, biosphere, cyanobacteria, astrobiology, panspermia, panzooia, microfossil, bootstrap, evolution

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