Exploring Life

 Exploring Life

It was an opportunity to go through the video on “Water Anomalies” by the Brazilian Physicist Marcia Barbosa. It sparked a new exploration connecting life and chemistry.

It is true that the major chemical compound on Earth is water. The machinery of nature has devised an industrial process without any machine to ensure that this major compound water goes through a process of evaporation from ocean, process of condensation in atmosphere and to the process of precipitation, the rain, to get back to earth and its ocean.

All living creatures on Earth are designed to survive with the help of this compound water. In fact, all living things are an integral part of water. This is science and from here starts another journey into exploring the science of universe.

Presume that an extra-terrestrial traveler in some part of the universe visits a catalogue store cataloguing life and its support systems, the item Earth will feature water and water-based life system.

Our search for life outside Earth needs a new dimension to view. Many of us are searching for life similar to those in our ecosystem, the Earth. But the point we are missing is that any life on Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn or any other heavenly body will be an integral part of the maximum chemical compound that is available on that heavenly body.

Once the data of maximum chemical compounds present in planets and other heavenly bodies are gathered and catalogued, then the analytics on these data will lead us to the possible form of life that could exist in these systems. These new life forms in other planets will be an integral part of the chemical compounds that exists there.

If at all there be any life system out there in the universe more intelligent and advanced than us, then they would have started this process of cataloguing. In fact, they would have initiated a plan to collect and conduct experiment on water to get more information about life on Earth.

If there be no life system more intelligent than us out there in the universe, then we will be the first to initiate and start the process of cataloguing the availability, in abundance, of chemical compounds in various planets and heavenly bodies.

It will be wise to introduce a subject paper on astrochemistry and start a whole new establishment to study and explore life in the universe through chemistry. The more humans walk away from the core of fundamentals the quicker they will be lost in both space and time. 

Today's world may be integrated by electronics and communications, but the first primary integration always happens in chemistry and all the other integrations are just applications.