Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry
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Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry
We usually think of auroras as beautiful lights in the night sky. I see them as visible traces of a connection between the sun, Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere. This led me to an origin-of-life question: Could the planetary structure that produces auroras also have organized chemical reactions on early Earth?
Chemistry in the Polar Light: The magnetic field of the young earth could have bundled high-energy particles in high widths and repeatedly triggered prebiotic reactions there. A new hypothesis describes the Aurora belt as natural ion beam reactors, whereby less the global material production than the spatial concentration of energy, reaction products and other chemical steps would be decisive. Kumatori (Japan). [...] The article Polar light belt…
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