Long Before the Stars

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-building-blocks-of-life-can-form-even-without-stars-or-planets-scientists-say/ar-BB1b3Uvq?ocid=msedgntp

Dark Chemistry,

nothing to do

with Voldemort,

circulates all around us.

 

Dense interstellar clouds,

cold dust particles,

covered by thin layers of ice,

impacting atoms,

precursor species fragment,

reactive intermediates recombine,

to form more solid substance.

 

No energetic radiation required,

glycine formed,

amino acids created

ubiquitously in space.

 

The building blocks

of life that predate planets

grown without ultraviolet rays.

 

Thus we unravel,

layer by onion layer,

the origin of the species,

 

and yet we remain,

in the scheme

of being made of matter,

primitive and

ignorant.

 

17/11/20

Author's Note

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Primitive, ignorant and turning into mad hatters...so that is what we are doing....
and once the onion is totally peeled, we will disappear, but the universe, the stars, they will still exist, smiling...Paul looks like he is about to cry on this cover, and Ringo looks so pensive...never saw George with that big of a smile.
That album was such a mess in the making..and was actually made before Abby Road...

Ringo had a lot to do with trying to piece it together....they were fighting so badly during the making of it.
Couldn't get them all in the studio at once.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I think in our delusions about how advanced we are since caveman and flat earthers we miss the point about life the universe and everything. So you are a Beatles aficionado? Many thanks for reading Jacob.

[Robert Trakofler]

This reminds me of the "water bears" or Tardigrades that can survive the vacuum of space and all its radiation and still live as well as the frequency of viral/bacterial life found in space rocks it is kind of a no brainer at this point that life has, will and probably does exist in many other places:) I will have to do some more reading on the subject:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The difference being that it was thought live needed the radiation to be created. This observation is that it does not, and therefore life may predate planetary formation! It fascinates me and I try to remember we once thought the earth was flat so at this point we are still as ignorant despite our progress. Thanks for reading Robert.