Kevin's Watch

I've always believed that comets are part of the interstellar media.
And now, this...
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun-stol ... 01223.html
I knew it.
I've also always believed in panspermia, and that comets are the seeds of life (water and organic materials-- possibly even whole organisms!)
www.newscientist.com/article/dn14690-wa ... acuum.html
Now here's where I go out on a limb:
Remember this?
www.aip.org/pnu/1998/split/pnu391-1.htm
Here's my theory.
Background radiation of space means there is no absolute zero found in nature. You're always going to have 3 degrees kelvin.
BUT...
What if there is some sort of "cosmic wind chill factor" that will cause any object leaving the heliosphere of a star to reach a state similar to absolute zero?
What does that mean?
All atoms vibrate at the speed of light. If you are traveling at lightspeed, your mass increases exponentially, and your atoms achieve a solid state.
This is known as the Bose-Einstein condensate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate
My theory is that in this state of matter, an entire volume of atoms acts like a single quantum particle.
This is known as non-locality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlocality
A body of atoms, already in motion, will therefore act under the law of inertia.
The object, in motion, will remain in motion.
But its relative velocity becomes infinite!
So what have I always believed?
That life originates from space and is distributed, faster than light, by comets, as they continually go from one star system to the next!

Buzzy!

I could have told you that!

Maybe this would be better in the Loresraat...?

Not that GenDisc couldn't use the post count, mind you.

aliantha wrote:Maybe this would be better in the Loresraat...?

Not that GenDisc couldn't use the post count, mind you.

Of course there are still forums here I'm too dull witted to catch on to!

'S okay.

Lord Zombiac wrote:My theory is that in this state of matter, an entire volume of atoms acts like a single quantum particle.
This is known as non-locality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlocality

It has already been established that atoms below a certain critical temperature (this temperature will differ for every atom) will acquire more wave-like properties than matter-like properties. One direct result of this is that, as waves, the atoms become non-localized in space...which coincides with your thinking. In short, you are on the right path already.

I don't think anyone knows what were to happen if a significant amount of matter were able to be non-localized (by "significant" I mean "enough to see with the unaided eye", so at least 1 gram). I don't know if matter like this would travel at the speed of light, but it is possible that it could travel at velocities sufficiently high that relativistic time distortion would be significant--from the point of view of proto-microbes on the comet only an hour or two passes as they travel from star to star.

It is certainly something to consider.

Hashi,

Bose-Einstein condinsates are cool (pardon the pun).

SerScot wrote:Hashi,

Bose-Einstein condinsates are cool (pardon the pun).

Well-played puns are always welcome.

Of course, the heat upon impact would very likely obliterate all traces of them Furthermore, there has to be a food source around that they can use... and there can't be significant quantities of poison around them... and the sun shouldn't blow up...

I'll back you up, Hashi:
Let's talk comets [not all, but many]. They have the necessary materials for very simple life
They have a trail that ain't very hot at all that they spread across lots of planetary orbital paths.
Even when they get hot enough to blow up, [hitting an atmoshpere, for instance] they're not very hot...not a fireball, more like pockets of trapped boiling liquid...and not all the way through necessarily...and things like bacteria/viruses can't fall through our atmosphere fast enough to build friction and burn [once they're out of the comet itself].