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Cosmology, astrobiology and the RNA world: just add quintessential water
International Journal of Astrobiology ( IF 1.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 , DOI: 10.1017/s1473550420000403
Keith Johnson

Laboratory generation of water nanoclusters from amorphous ice and strong terahertz (THz) radiation from water nanoclusters ejected from water vapour into a vacuum suggest the possibility of water nanoclusters ejected into interstellar space from abundant amorphous ice-coated cosmic dust produced by supernovae explosions. Water nanoclusters (section ‘Water nanoclusters’) offer a hypothetical scenario connecting major mysteries of our Universe: dark matter (section ‘Baryonic dark matter’), dark energy (section ‘Dark energy’), cosmology (section ‘Cosmology’), astrobiology (section ‘Astrobiology’) and the RNA world (section ‘The RNA world’) as the origin of life on Earth and habitable exoplanets. Despite their expected low density in space compared to hydrogen, their quantum-entangled diffuse Rydberg electronic states make cosmic water nanoclusters a candidate for baryonic dark matter that can also absorb, via the microscopic dynamical Casimir effect, the virtual photons of zero-point-energy vacuum fluctuations above the nanocluster cut-off vibrational frequencies, leaving only vacuum fluctuations below these frequencies to be gravitationally active, thus leading to a possible common origin of dark matter and dark energy. This picture includes novel explanations of the small cosmological constant, the coincidence of energy and matter densities, possible contributions of the red-shifted THz radiation from cosmic water nanoclusters at redshift z ≅ 10 to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum, the Hubble constant crisis, the role of water as a known coolant for rapid early star formation and ultimately, how life may have originated from RNA protocells on Earth and exoplanets and moons in the habitable zones of developed solar systems. Together, they lead to a cyclic universe cosmology – based on the proposed equivalence of cosmic water nanoclusters to a quintessence scalar field – instead of a multiverse based on cosmic inflation theory. Recent CMB birefringence measurements may support quintessence. Finally, from the quantum chemistry of water nanoclusters interacting with prebiotic organic molecules, amino acids and RNA protocells on early Earth and habitable exoplanets, this scenario is consistent with the anthropic principle that our Universe must have those properties which allow life, as we know it – based on water, to develop at the present stage of its history.

中文翻译:

宇宙学、天体生物学和 RNA 世界:只需添加典型的水

实验室从无定形冰生成的水纳米团簇和从水蒸气喷射到真空中的水纳米团簇产生的强太赫兹 (THz) 辐射表明,超新星爆炸产生的大量无定形冰覆盖的宇宙尘埃喷射到星际空间中的水纳米团簇的可能性。水纳米团簇(“水纳米团簇”部分)提供了一个连接我们宇宙主要奥秘的假设场景:暗物质(“重子暗物质”部分)、暗能量(“暗能量”部分)、宇宙学(“宇宙学”部分)、天体生物学(“天体生物学”部分)和 RNA 世界(“RNA 世界”部分)作为地球和可居住系外行星生命的起源。尽管与氢相比,它们在太空中的预期密度较低,他们的量子纠缠扩散里德堡电子态使宇宙水纳米团簇成为重子暗物质的候选者,它还可以通过微观动力学卡西米尔效应吸收纳米团簇截止振动频率以上零点能量真空波动的虚光子,只留下低于这些频率的真空波动在引力作用下活跃,从而导致暗物质和暗能量可能的共同起源。这张图片包括对小宇宙学常数、能量和物质密度的重合、来自宇宙水纳米团簇的红移太赫兹辐射在红移时的可能贡献的新颖解释 零点能量真空涨落的虚光子高于纳米团簇截止振动频率,只留下低于这些频率的真空涨落具有引力活性,从而导致暗物质和暗能量可能的共同起源。这张图片包括对小宇宙学常数、能量和物质密度的重合、来自宇宙水纳米团簇的红移太赫兹辐射在红移时的可能贡献的新颖解释 零点能量真空涨落的虚光子高于纳米团簇截止振动频率,只留下低于这些频率的真空涨落具有引力活性,从而导致暗物质和暗能量可能的共同起源。这张图片包括对小宇宙学常数、能量和物质密度的重合、来自宇宙水纳米团簇的红移太赫兹辐射在红移时的可能贡献的新颖解释z≅ 10 到宇宙微波背景 (CMB) 光谱、哈勃常数危机、水作为已知冷却剂在快速早期恒星形成中的作用以及最终,生命可能如何起源于地球上的 RNA 原始细胞以及可居住的系外行星和卫星发达的太阳系区域。它们共同导致了循环宇宙宇宙学——基于提出的宇宙水纳米团簇与典型标量场的等价性——而不是基于宇宙膨胀理论的多元宇宙。最近的 CMB 双折射测量可能支持精髓。最后,从水纳米团簇与早期地球和宜居系外行星上的益生元有机分子、氨基酸和 RNA 原始细胞相互作用的量子化学中,
更新日期:2021-01-07
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