• Question: How did the Eirth get water and live began

    Asked by 442prtj39 to Daniel on 23 Jun 2017.
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      Daniel Smith answered on 23 Jun 2017:


      Hmmm… thats actually a question that we are still trying to answer. We know that the Earth formed from the big bang, with particles of iron slowly colliding with each other at super hot temperatures, with the magnetism pulling more iron towards itself until the core formed. Then the magnetism formed gravity which pulled more of the elements that were slowly forming to the surface. The gases oxygen and hydrogen then started to react at high temperatures to form water which eventually cooled and condensed to form the oceans….

      But as for life, we are still trying to answer that as even the smallest organisms need proteins to survive which require complex enzymes (themselves proteins) and chemical reactions to form. We still aren’t sure how this happened but we think that it there may have been small amino acids (1 part of a protein chain) forming on comets of ice in space which collided with the forming Earth bringing them here.

      But its a great thing to research as we still aren’t sure 🙂

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