Did Life on Earth Start Between the Sheets... Of Mica that is?

08/21/2010 03:12PM

Did Life on Earth Start Between the Sheets... Of Mica that is?

That age-old question, "Where did life on Earth start?" now has a new possible answer. There are several lines of evidence that support the idea that life originated with molecules that lay between mica sheets. The life between the sheets mica hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). If the "life between the sheets" mica hypothesis is correct, life would have originated between sheets of mica that were layered like the pages in a book.


Comments:

  • Steve OK [Steve Mathis]
  • 08/21/2010 09:44PM
This gives the idea of "Mother Earth" a whole new look!
  • JJM [James McSheehy]
  • 08/22/2010 04:06PM
Abiogenesis is a thorn in the side of many theories. Let's see, so far we have clay, tidal pools, mica, and deep sea vents as the progenitors of that mysterious spark of life. Erwin Schrödinger (and others) offered a different perspective on the origins, but the biochemists don't want to hear any of that "woo". So they continue to beat the same dead horses.