Background
Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra was born on January 20, 1939 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Son of Percival H. and Theresa E. (Soysa) Wickramasinghe.
(For much of history comets have been associated with deat...)
For much of history comets have been associated with death and disease. There is increasing evidence that that viruses, microbes and other living creatures dwell beneath the surface of comets meteors, asteroids and other stellar debris and when these extraterrestrial objects pass close to Earth, or strike the atmosphere of this planet. If the meteor or comet disintegrates then trillions of microbes and viruses may survive and then slowly drift down from the upper atmosphere. For the last 50 years different teams of investigators have discovered microbes, bacteria, fungi and micro-biofossils in space dust collected from the stratosphere at heights of up to 61km. These microbes are essentially the same as those found on Earth. If they are extraterrestrial in origin, then possibly the genetic code is not just universal on Earth, but throughout the cosmos; meaning that DNA is a cosmic imperative for life. However, it is also know that microbes live in the atmosphere, and it is possible that these microbes were somehow blown upward into the stratosphere; perhaps by cyclones, hurricanes, volcanic eruption, or powerful solar winds. In fact, on Earth, or other habitable planets, powerful solar winds could eject microbes and viruses into space. Therefore, other planets could be repeatedly infected by the survivors. In our own solar system, this could include Mars. Liquid water has almost certainly been a feature on Mars in its earlier history, and the presence of extinct or present life on Mars cannot be excluded. If there is life on Mars, and even if it originated in space, or from Earth, it can be deduced that would be decidedly different from their Earthly counterparts and therefor posing a risk of disease or contagion to future astronauts who visit the Red Planet. Based on our current understanding of host-pathogen relationships and evolutionary processes, we may conclude that the chance of a human mission to Mars to encounter pathogenic microorganisms is a real possibility. Bacteria, archae, and viruses represent the most numerous, diverse, and stress resistant life forms on this planet, and are the perfect candidates for withstanding and surviving the physical stresses related to interplanetary travel include the ejection into space, exposure to the space medium, temperature extremes, lack of water, and radiation of space, as well as a crash landing onto the surface of another planet. Once in a new location, surviving organisms may be forced to compete with the inhabitants of these planets, or they may infect them. If passing comets have continued to deposit viruses and microorganisms on this planet, this may explain why ancient astronomers and civilizations attributed the periodic outbreak of plague to these stellar objects. Moreover, the subsequent evolution and extinction of life may have been directly impacted by the continued arrival of bacteria, archae, viruses, and their genes from space. On this picture the evolution of higher plants and animals, including humans, would be impacted by the insertion of genes from space, as well as recurrent episodes of pandemic disease. Near-culling pandemics and extinction episodes have in fact been preceded by or followed by inserts of viral genes into survivors who have transmitted these viral elements to their progeny, thereby impacting future evolution. Although ancient fears and reverence of comets may be coincidental with the outbreaks of pandemics, they may also have a factual basis. Contents 1. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space 2. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and... 3. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 4. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 5. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space. 6. Infection Risk of a Human Mission to Mars 7. Meteors, Microbes, Viruses: Genetic Seeds of Life Keep Falling to Earth 8. Viruses, Evolution, Interplanetary Horizontal Gene Transfer
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(By the eminent British astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, this w...)
By the eminent British astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, this work presents a startling new theory that revolutionizes our understanding of the evolutionary process.
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(In the last decade Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe ...)
In the last decade Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe have put forth their theories of the extraterrestrial origin of life, and of the way viruses and bacteria spread disease. Their ideas have always aroused intense controversy and invariably given new direction to scientific research. In Cosmic Life-Force, the most ambitious synthesis of their theories, the authors connect the "evolution of life and intelligence on Earth with the processes that are cosmic on the grandest scale." Citing current data derived from space probes and biological and astronomical research, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe eloquently support their startling claim that life on Earth originated from and has been continually influenced by the influx of freeze-dried "cosmic bacteria" carried by comets and other celestial objects. Applying this theory first to Earth, they then move to the other planets of our solar system and beyond to other galaxies. They conclude that the universe as a whole is controlled by an intelligent life-force that overcomes all other forces of nature. Mind boggling in its implications, this book makes an incredible contribution to the fields of astronomy, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and medicine. Intriguing interpretations are presented for a number of scientific mysteries. Superbly written and richly illustrated, Cosmic Life-Force is popular science writing at its most provocative, a brilliant union of compelling scientific argument and profound spiritual meditation.
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(Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous part...)
Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous particles can be worked-out exactly for spheres and infinite cylinders. Homogeneous particles of irregular shapes, when averaged with respect to rotation, have effects that can in general be well-approximated by reference to results for these two idealised cases. Likewise, small inhomogeneous particles have effects similar to homogeneous particles of the same average refractive index. Thus most problems can be solved to a satisfactory approximation by reference to the exact solutions for spheres and cylinders, which are fully stated here in the early part of the book. The sum of scattering and absorption, the extinction, is too large to be explained by inorganic materials, provided element abundances in the interstellar medium are not appreciably greater than solar, H 0 and NH3 being essentially excluded in the 2 general medium, otherwise very strong absorptions near 3p,m would be observed which they are not. A well-marked extinction maximum in the ultraviolet near 2200A has also not been explained satisfactorily by inorganic materials. Accurately formed graphite spheres with radii close to O.02p,m could conceivably provide an explanation of this ultraviolet feature but no convincing laboratory preparation of such spheres has ever been achieved.
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(Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous part...)
Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous particles can be worked-out exactly for spheres and infinite cylinders. Homogeneous particles of irregular shapes, when averaged with respect to rotation, have effects that can in general be well-approximated by reference to results for these two idealised cases. Likewise, small inhomogeneous particles have effects similar to homogeneous particles of the same average refractive index. Thus most problems can be solved to a satisfactory approximation by reference to the exact solutions for spheres and cylinders, which are fully stated here in the early part of the book. The sum of scattering and absorption, the extinction, is too large to be explained by inorganic materials, provided element abundances in the interstellar medium are not appreciably greater than solar, H 0 and NH3 being essentially excluded in the 2 general medium, otherwise very strong absorptions near 3p,m would be observed which they are not. A well-marked extinction maximum in the ultraviolet near 2200A has also not been explained satisfactorily by inorganic materials. Accurately formed graphite spheres with radii close to O.02p,m could conceivably provide an explanation of this ultraviolet feature but no convincing laboratory preparation of such spheres has ever been achieved.
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(In this book the authors attack the Earth-centric view th...)
In this book the authors attack the Earth-centric view that life originated in some virus-like form and simply evolved by natural selection. Arguing from the evidence of virology and epidemiology, they show that it is overwhelmingly likely that life originated outside the solar system, and propose that life-forms from space are constantly arriving to mingle with our own biosphere.
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(For thousands of years humans have gazed up into the heav...)
For thousands of years humans have gazed up into the heavens pondering the nature of existence, and asking: How did life begin? Are we alone in the vastness of the cosmos? Are there people on other planets? Did a god create man in the image of god? Or did man create the gods in the image of man? Is there any meaning and purpose to life? Or is it all a cruel cosmic joke? For thousands of years two major competing schools of thought, one scientific the other based on on the supernatural, have sought to answer questions as to the meaning, purpose and origins of life. The supernatural view holds that the life originated on earth because the Earth had special life generating powers and Earth is the source of all life; and this view is accepted by the majority of scientists and the religious authorities. And is often falsely claimed, as established fact, that all life on Earth randomly evolved from a single organism which was fashioned in an organic stew after the necessary chemicals were randomly mixed together and then energized 3.6 billion to to 4.2 billion years ago. However, the is no hard evidence to support an Earthly abiogenesis and considerable evidence which argues against it. By contrast, there is considerable evidence from astrobiology, genetics, microbiology, virology, and the fossil record which demonstrates that life has an extraterrestrial origin and that microbes were deposited on this planet early in its history when Earth was bombarded by comets, meteors, and planetary debris containing living bacteria, archae, viruses, and other microbes. Further, those promoting a "cosmic ancestry", such as R. Gabriel Joseph and Chandra Wickramasinghe, have argued that evolution has been shaped by viruses deposited on Earth by comets and meteors. Although Darwin has been elevated to near deity status, the fossil record and genetics is not consistent with his belief that evolution has proceeded by "small steps." Instead evolution takes place by quantum leaps after long periods of stasis. According to Joseph, Prokaryotes have inserted genes into the Eukaryotic genome, and have then labored to biologically alter the biosphere by pumping oxygen, calcium and other substances into the environment which activated those genes donated by Prokaryotes. Joseph has detailed and reviewed a body of evidence which demonstrates that archae, bacteria, and viruses serve as interplanetary genetic messengers, whose genomes have been shaped by interplanetary horizontal gene transfer, and that collectively the vast genetic libraries maintained by viruses and single cells microbes, have provided all the necessary genetic information for the evolution of every creature which has swam, crawled, or slithered across the Earth. Joseph calls his theory "Evolutionary Metamorphosis" and "Evolutionary Embryology." There is also considerable evidence that bacteria and microbes continue to fall to Earth from space, and in many instances, via horizontal gene transfer, these microbes and viruses insert beneficial genes into the Eukaryotic genome and have shaped the trajectory of evolution leading to humans. However, according to Dr. Joseph and Chandra Wickramasinghe in some instances these same bacteria and viruses are sources of contagion and plague, and for thousands of years it has been believed that plague is associated with comets. Joseph and Wickramasinghe call this phenomenon "Diseases from Space." Disease sometimes occur when there is a slight mismatch between the viral genome and the genome of the host, for when there is a perfect match, the host often benefits, and new species emerge; what Joseph calls "metamorphosis" and the replication of living creatures which long ago evolved on other planets.
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(For much of history comets have been associated with deat...)
For much of history comets have been associated with death and disease. There is increasing evidence that that viruses, microbes and other living creatures dwell beneath the surface of comets meteors, asteroids and other stellar debris and when these extraterrestrial objects pass close to Earth, or strike the atmosphere of this planet. If the meteor or comet disintegrates then trillions of microbes and viruses may survive and then slowly drift down from the upper atmosphere. For the last 50 years different teams of investigators have discovered microbes, bacteria, fungi and micro-biofossils in space dust collected from the stratosphere at heights of up to 61km. These microbes are essentially the same as those found on Earth. If they are extraterrestrial in origin, then possibly the genetic code is not just universal on Earth, but throughout the cosmos; meaning that DNA is a cosmic imperative for life. However, it is also know that microbes live in the atmosphere, and it is possible that these microbes were somehow blown upward into the stratosphere; perhaps by cyclones, hurricanes, volcanic eruption, or powerful solar winds. In fact, on Earth, or other habitable planets, powerful solar winds could eject microbes and viruses into space. Therefore, other planets could be repeatedly infected by the survivors. In our own solar system, this could include Mars. Liquid water has almost certainly been a feature on Mars in its earlier history, and the presence of extinct or present life on Mars cannot be excluded. If there is life on Mars, and even if it originated in space, or from Earth, it can be deduced that would be decidedly different from their Earthly counterparts and therefor posing a risk of disease or contagion to future astronauts who visit the Red Planet. Based on our current understanding of host-pathogen relationships and evolutionary processes, we may conclude that the chance of a human mission to Mars to encounter pathogenic microorganisms is a real possibility. Bacteria, archae, and viruses represent the most numerous, diverse, and stress resistant life forms on this planet, and are the perfect candidates for withstanding and surviving the physical stresses related to interplanetary travel include the ejection into space, exposure to the space medium, temperature extremes, lack of water, and radiation of space, as well as a crash landing onto the surface of another planet. Once in a new location, surviving organisms may be forced to compete with the inhabitants of these planets, or they may infect them. If passing comets have continued to deposit viruses and microorganisms on this planet, this may explain why ancient astronomers and civilizations attributed the periodic outbreak of plague to these stellar objects. Moreover, the subsequent evolution and extinction of life may have been directly impacted by the continued arrival of bacteria, archae, viruses, and their genes from space. On this picture the evolution of higher plants and animals, including humans, would be impacted by the insertion of genes from space, as well as recurrent episodes of pandemic disease. Near-culling pandemics and extinction episodes have in fact been preceded by or followed by inserts of viral genes into survivors who have transmitted these viral elements to their progeny, thereby impacting future evolution. Although ancient fears and reverence of comets may be coincidental with the outbreaks of pandemics, they may also have a factual basis. Contents 1. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space 2. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and... 3. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 4. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 5. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space. 6. Infection Risk of a Human Mission to Mars 7. Meteors, Microbes, Viruses: Genetic Seeds of Life Keep Falling to Earth 8. Viruses, Evolution, Interplanetary Horizontal Gene Transfer
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(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology and the Origins of Life in the Universe 2. The Imperatives of CosmicBiology 3. The Emergence of Life in the Universe at the Epoch of Dark Energy Domination 4. First Life in the Oceans of Primordial-Planets: The Biological Big Bang II. GENETICS 5. Genetic Gradualism and the ExtraTerrestrial Origin of Life 6. Extraterrestrial Origin of Life and Genetic Gradualism 7. How Universal is the Universal Genetic Code? A Question of ExtraTerrestrial Origins III. PANSPERMIA 8. Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, and Viral Visitors From the Stars. 9. Mechanisms for Panspermia 10. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and the Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space 11. TheForgottenHistoryofPanspermiaand Theories of Life From Space 12. Why Do Some People Reject Panspermia? 13. Musings on the Origin of Life and Panspermia 14. TheSpreadingofLifeThroughouttheUniverse IV. THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH 15. Life on Earth Came From Other Planets 16. TheFirstEarthlingsandtheGeneticSeedsofLife:Extra-Terrestrial Genes, and the Origin and Evolution of Genetic Life V. VIRUSES AND LIFE 17. TheOriginofEukaryotes:Archae,Bacteria,Virusesand Horizontal Gene Transfer .... 18. Viruses and Life: Can There Be One Without the Other? VI. VIRUSES, MICROBES & DISEASES FROM SPACE 19. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 20. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 21. Spectroscopic Evidence of Cosmic Life 22. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and the Vernadskiy Mission to NEA 2005NB56 23. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space VII. DIRECTED PANSPERMIA 24. Purposeful Panspermia: The Other Conquest of Space? Ethical Considerations 25. Seeding the Universe with Life: Securing Our Cosmological Future VIII. SEARCH FOR LIFE 26. Searching for life on Habitable Planets and Moons 27. Numerical Astrophysics, Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life . Silicon-Based, Ammonia-Based Life 29. Water Worlds, Naive Physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds 30. Water Worlds and Oceans May be Common in the Universe 31. Extant Life on Mars: Resolving the Issues 32. Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It? 33. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus
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(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology and the Origins of Life in the Universe 2. The Imperatives of CosmicBiology 3. The Emergence of Life in the Universe at the Epoch of Dark Energy Domination 4. First Life in the Oceans of Primordial-Planets: The Biological Big Bang II. GENETICS 5. Genetic Gradualism and the ExtraTerrestrial Origin of Life 6. Extraterrestrial Origin of Life and Genetic Gradualism 7. How Universal is the Universal Genetic Code? A Question of ExtraTerrestrial Origins III. PANSPERMIA 8. Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, and Viral Visitors From the Stars. 9. Mechanisms for Panspermia 10. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and the Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space 11. TheForgottenHistoryofPanspermiaand Theories of Life From Space 12. Why Do Some People Reject Panspermia? 13. Musings on the Origin of Life and Panspermia 14. TheSpreadingofLifeThroughouttheUniverse IV. THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH 15. Life on Earth Came From Other Planets 16. TheFirstEarthlingsandtheGeneticSeedsofLife:Extra-Terrestrial Genes, and the Origin and Evolution of Genetic Life V. VIRUSES AND LIFE 17. TheOriginofEukaryotes:Archae,Bacteria,Virusesand Horizontal Gene Transfer .... 18. Viruses and Life: Can There Be One Without the Other? VI. VIRUSES, MICROBES & DISEASES FROM SPACE 19. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 20. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 21. Spectroscopic Evidence of Cosmic Life 22. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and the Vernadskiy Mission to NEA 2005NB56 23. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space VII. DIRECTED PANSPERMIA 24. Purposeful Panspermia: The Other Conquest of Space? Ethical Considerations 25. Seeding the Universe with Life: Securing Our Cosmological Future VIII. SEARCH FOR LIFE 26. Searching for life on Habitable Planets and Moons 27. Numerical Astrophysics, Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life . Silicon-Based, Ammonia-Based Life 29. Water Worlds, Naive Physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds 30. Water Worlds and Oceans May be Common in the Universe 31. Extant Life on Mars: Resolving the Issues 32. Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It? 33. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus
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(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology and the Origins of Life in the Universe 2. The Imperatives of CosmicBiology 3. The Emergence of Life in the Universe at the Epoch of Dark Energy Domination 4. First Life in the Oceans of Primordial-Planets: The Biological Big Bang II. GENETICS 5. Genetic Gradualism and the ExtraTerrestrial Origin of Life 6. Extraterrestrial Origin of Life and Genetic Gradualism 7. How Universal is the Universal Genetic Code? A Question of ExtraTerrestrial Origins III. PANSPERMIA 8. Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, and Viral Visitors From the Stars. 9. Mechanisms for Panspermia 10. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and the Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space 11. TheForgottenHistoryofPanspermiaand Theories of Life From Space 12. Why Do Some People Reject Panspermia? 13. Musings on the Origin of Life and Panspermia 14. TheSpreadingofLifeThroughouttheUniverse IV. THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH 15. Life on Earth Came From Other Planets 16. TheFirstEarthlingsandtheGeneticSeedsofLife:Extra-Terrestrial Genes, and the Origin and Evolution of Genetic Life V. VIRUSES AND LIFE 17. TheOriginofEukaryotes:Archae,Bacteria,Virusesand Horizontal Gene Transfer .... 18. Viruses and Life: Can There Be One Without the Other? VI. VIRUSES, MICROBES & DISEASES FROM SPACE 19. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 20. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 21. Spectroscopic Evidence of Cosmic Life 22. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and the Vernadskiy Mission to NEA 2005NB56 23. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space VII. DIRECTED PANSPERMIA 24. Purposeful Panspermia: The Other Conquest of Space? Ethical Considerations 25. Seeding the Universe with Life: Securing Our Cosmological Future VIII. SEARCH FOR LIFE 26. Searching for life on Habitable Planets and Moons 27. Numerical Astrophysics, Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life . Silicon-Based, Ammonia-Based Life 29. Water Worlds, Naive Physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds 30. Water Worlds and Oceans May be Common in the Universe 31. Extant Life on Mars: Resolving the Issues 32. Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It? 33. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus
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(Life on Earth, Came From Other Planets. There is biologic...)
Life on Earth, Came From Other Planets. There is biological evidence of life in this planet's oldest rocks. Genetic evidence indicates life has a genetic pedigree extending backwards in time billions of years before Earth was formed. The genetic "Seeds of Life" flow throughout the cosmos, and contain the genes and genetic instructions for the evolution and metamorphosis of every creature which has walked, crawled, swam or slithered across the Earth. Once these life forms fell to Earth, they terraformed the planet, creating an oxygen atmosphere and secreting oceans of calcium which enabled oxygen breathing animals with bones and brains to evolve. Living creatures modify the environment, which acts on gene selection giving rise to tissues, organs, and species which had been coded into genes inherited from ancestral species whose own ancestors hailed from other worlds. What we call "evolution" is under precise genetic control, similar to embryogenesis and metamorphosis, and involves complex gene-environmental interactions. Evolution is not random but is instead the replication of creatures which long ago lived on other planets. Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe (along with his colleague astrophysicist Fred Hoyle) is the "father" of the field known today as "astrobiology." (Hoyle coined the term "The Big Bang"). Dr. Rudy Schild is a famed astrophysicist hailing from the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian. Dr. Rhawn Joseph began his scientific career in the 1970s making major discoveries in biology and the neurosciences which triggered a paradigm-shift in scientific thought. According to Dr. Joseph, Earth is Not the Center of the Biological Universe. If Life were to appear on a desert island we wouldn't claim it was randomly assembled in an organic soup or created by the hand of god; we'd conclude it washed to shore or fell from the sky. Earth too, is an island, orbiting in a sea of space, and living creatures and their DNA have been washing to shore and falling from the sky since our planets creation. The likelihood that life on Earth was created in an Earthly-organic soup is the equivalent of discovering a computer on Mars and proclaiming it was randomly assembled in the Methane Sea. What is the origin of life? Genetics indicates a 10B.Y. ancestry. Life may have many origins including within primordial planets drifting within nebular clouds. It has been scientifically demonstrated that microbes can easily survive the ejection from and crash landing onto a planet, and a prolonged journey through space. Bacteria, archae, and viruses have taken root on innumerable worlds much older than our own, and act as interplanetary genetic messengers, acquiring genes and transferring genes from species to species as they and their descendants are deposited on innumerable worlds following cosmic collisions. The Earth, too, was seeded with life, which fell upon the new planet encased in meteors, asteroids, comets, and oceans of ice. Once on Earth, microbes and viruses exchanged genes, possibly with single celled eukaryotes, triggering multi-cellularity and then the evolution of plants and animals perfectly adapted for a world which had been genetically transformed and prepared for them. Genes act on the environment, genetically altering the environment, and the altered environment (in conjunction with regulatory genes) acts on genes which had been inherited from ancestral species which long ago lived on other worlds. Evolution is not random. Just as apple seeds contain the genetic instructions for the growth of apple trees, these genetic seeds of life contained the DNA-instructions for the Tree of Life, and the metamorphosis of all life, including woman and man: the replication of creatures which long ago lived on other planets.
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(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology and the Origins of Life in the Universe 2. The Imperatives of CosmicBiology 3. The Emergence of Life in the Universe at the Epoch of Dark Energy Domination 4. First Life in the Oceans of Primordial-Planets: The Biological Big Bang II. GENETICS 5. Genetic Gradualism and the ExtraTerrestrial Origin of Life 6. Extraterrestrial Origin of Life and Genetic Gradualism 7. How Universal is the Universal Genetic Code? A Question of ExtraTerrestrial Origins III. PANSPERMIA 8. Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, and Viral Visitors From the Stars. 9. Mechanisms for Panspermia 10. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and the Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space 11. TheForgottenHistoryofPanspermiaand Theories of Life From Space 12. Why Do Some People Reject Panspermia? 13. Musings on the Origin of Life and Panspermia 14. TheSpreadingofLifeThroughouttheUniverse IV. THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH 15. Life on Earth Came From Other Planets 16. TheFirstEarthlingsandtheGeneticSeedsofLife:Extra-Terrestrial Genes, and the Origin and Evolution of Genetic Life V. VIRUSES AND LIFE 17. TheOriginofEukaryotes:Archae,Bacteria,Virusesand Horizontal Gene Transfer .... 18. Viruses and Life: Can There Be One Without the Other? VI. VIRUSES, MICROBES & DISEASES FROM SPACE 19. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 20. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 21. Spectroscopic Evidence of Cosmic Life 22. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and the Vernadskiy Mission to NEA 2005NB56 23. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space VII. DIRECTED PANSPERMIA 24. Purposeful Panspermia: The Other Conquest of Space? Ethical Considerations 25. Seeding the Universe with Life: Securing Our Cosmological Future VIII. SEARCH FOR LIFE 26. Searching for life on Habitable Planets and Moons 27. Numerical Astrophysics, Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life . Silicon-Based, Ammonia-Based Life 29. Water Worlds, Naive Physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds 30. Water Worlds and Oceans May be Common in the Universe 31. Extant Life on Mars: Resolving the Issues 32. Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It? 33. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus
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(Life on Earth, Came From Other Planets. There is biologic...)
Life on Earth, Came From Other Planets. There is biological evidence of life in this planet's oldest rocks. Genetic evidence indicates life has a genetic pedigree extending backwards in time billions of years before Earth was formed. The genetic "Seeds of Life" flow throughout the cosmos, and contain the genes and genetic instructions for the evolution and metamorphosis of every creature which has walked, crawled, swam or slithered across the Earth. Once these life forms fell to Earth, they terraformed the planet, creating an oxygen atmosphere and secreting oceans of calcium which enabled oxygen breathing animals with bones and brains to evolve. Living creatures modify the environment, which acts on gene selection giving rise to tissues, organs, and species which had been coded into genes inherited from ancestral species whose own ancestors hailed from other worlds. What we call "evolution" is under precise genetic control, similar to embryogenesis and metamorphosis, and involves complex gene-environmental interactions. Evolution is not random but is instead the replication of creatures which long ago lived on other planets. Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe (along with his colleague astrophysicist Fred Hoyle) is the "father" of the field known today as "astrobiology." (Hoyle coined the term "The Big Bang"). Dr. Rudy Schild is a famed astrophysicist hailing from the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian. Dr. Rhawn Joseph began his scientific career in the 1970s making major discoveries in biology and the neurosciences which triggered a paradigm-shift in scientific thought. According to Dr. Joseph, Earth is Not the Center of the Biological Universe. If Life were to appear on a desert island we wouldn't claim it was randomly assembled in an organic soup or created by the hand of god; we'd conclude it washed to shore or fell from the sky. Earth too, is an island, orbiting in a sea of space, and living creatures and their DNA have been washing to shore and falling from the sky since our planets creation. The likelihood that life on Earth was created in an Earthly-organic soup is the equivalent of discovering a computer on Mars and proclaiming it was randomly assembled in the Methane Sea. What is the origin of life? Genetics indicates a 10B.Y. ancestry. Life may have many origins including within primordial planets drifting within nebular clouds. It has been scientifically demonstrated that microbes can easily survive the ejection from and crash landing onto a planet, and a prolonged journey through space. Bacteria, archae, and viruses have taken root on innumerable worlds much older than our own, and act as interplanetary genetic messengers, acquiring genes and transferring genes from species to species as they and their descendants are deposited on innumerable worlds following cosmic collisions. The Earth, too, was seeded with life, which fell upon the new planet encased in meteors, asteroids, comets, and oceans of ice. Once on Earth, microbes and viruses exchanged genes, possibly with single celled eukaryotes, triggering multi-cellularity and then the evolution of plants and animals perfectly adapted for a world which had been genetically transformed and prepared for them. Genes act on the environment, genetically altering the environment, and the altered environment (in conjunction with regulatory genes) acts on genes which had been inherited from ancestral species which long ago lived on other worlds. Evolution is not random. Just as apple seeds contain the genetic instructions for the growth of apple trees, these genetic seeds of life contained the DNA-instructions for the Tree of Life, and the metamorphosis of all life, including woman and man: the replication of creatures which long ago lived on other planets.
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Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology and the Origins of Life in the Universe 2. The Imperatives of CosmicBiology 3. The Emergence of Life in the Universe at the Epoch of Dark Energy Domination 4. First Life in the Oceans of Primordial-Planets: The Biological Big Bang II. GENETICS 5. Genetic Gradualism and the ExtraTerrestrial Origin of Life 6. Extraterrestrial Origin of Life and Genetic Gradualism 7. How Universal is the Universal Genetic Code? A Question of ExtraTerrestrial Origins III. PANSPERMIA 8. Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, and Viral Visitors From the Stars. 9. Mechanisms for Panspermia 10. Microbial Survival Mechanisms and the Interplanetary Transfer of Life Through Space 11. TheForgottenHistoryofPanspermiaand Theories of Life From Space 12. Why Do Some People Reject Panspermia? 13. Musings on the Origin of Life and Panspermia 14. TheSpreadingofLifeThroughouttheUniverse IV. THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH 15. Life on Earth Came From Other Planets 16. TheFirstEarthlingsandtheGeneticSeedsofLife:Extra-Terrestrial Genes, and the Origin and Evolution of Genetic Life V. VIRUSES AND LIFE 17. TheOriginofEukaryotes:Archae,Bacteria,Virusesand Horizontal Gene Transfer .... 18. Viruses and Life: Can There Be One Without the Other? VI. VIRUSES, MICROBES & DISEASES FROM SPACE 19. Are Microbes Currently Arriving to Earth from Space? 20. Identification of Micro-Biofossils in Space Dust 21. Spectroscopic Evidence of Cosmic Life 22. Tunguska: Comets, Contagion and the Vernadskiy Mission to NEA 2005NB56 23. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space VII. DIRECTED PANSPERMIA 24. Purposeful Panspermia: The Other Conquest of Space? Ethical Considerations 25. Seeding the Universe with Life: Securing Our Cosmological Future VIII. SEARCH FOR LIFE 26. Searching for life on Habitable Planets and Moons 27. Numerical Astrophysics, Numerical Astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life . Silicon-Based, Ammonia-Based Life 29. Water Worlds, Naive Physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds 30. Water Worlds and Oceans May be Common in the Universe 31. Extant Life on Mars: Resolving the Issues 32. Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, And How Might We Find It? 33. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus
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Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra was born on January 20, 1939 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Son of Percival H. and Theresa E. (Soysa) Wickramasinghe.
Bachelor of Science in Special Mathematics University Ceylon, Sri Lanka, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Astrophysics, University Cambridge, England, 1963. Doctor of Science, University Cambridge, England, 1973.
Honorary D., Soka University, Tokyo, 1996.
Research fellow California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1965. Professor mathematics Vidyodaya University Ceylon, 1966. Visiting professor Universities of Arizona and Maryland, 1966-1970, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto (Japan) University, 1969.
Tutor Jesus College, Cambridge, 1965-1973. Fellow, staff member Cambridge University, 1966-1973. Professor, head department applied mathematics and astronomy University College, Cardiff, Wales, 1973-1989.
Professor applied mathematics and astronomy School Mathematics University Wales College of Cardiff, since 1989. Visiting professor University Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1974-1976, Institute Space and Astronautical Studies, Japan, 1993, department of physics University West Indies, Mona, Kingston, 1994. Director Institute Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka, 1982-1984.
United Nations Development Programme consultant, advisor to President of Sri Lanka, 1982-1984.
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(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
(Contents I. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE 1. Biological Cosmology a...)
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Author: Interstellar Grains, 1967, Light Scattering Functions for Small Particles with Applications in Astronomy, 1973, Glimpses of Life, Time and Space-An Anthology of Poems, 1994. (with F.D. Khan and Postgraduate Mezger) Interstellar Matter, 1974, Cosmic Laboratory, 1975. (with F. Hoyle) Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe, 1978, Diseases from Space, 1979, Origin of Life, 1979, Space Travellers: The Bringers of Life, 1981, Evolution from Space, 1981, Why Neo Darwinism does not Work, 1982, Proofs that Life is Cosmic, 1982, From Grains to Bacteria, 1994, Living Comets, 1985, Archaeopteryx - The Primordial Bird: A Case of Fossil Forgery, 1986, Cosmic Life Force, 1988, The Theory of Cosmic Grains, 1990, Our Place in the Cosmos, 1993, Life on Mars? The Case for a Cosmic Heritage, 1997.
Is Life an Astronomical Phenomenon?, 1982. (with F. Hoyle and J. Watkins) Viruses from Space, 1986. (with Daisaku Ideda) The Wonders of Life and the Universe, 1993.
Editor: (with D.J. Morgan) Solid-State Astrophysics, 1975. Fundamental Studies and Future of Science, 1984, (with F. Hoyle) Life on Mars? The Case for a Cosmic Heritage. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge 73.
Married Nelum Priyadarshini Pereira, April 5, 1966. Children: Anil Nissanka, Kamala Chandrika, Janaki Tara.