Scientists believe that lightning may have contributed to the emergence of life on Earth Vda

Well Lightning at heavy holes in the Earth could provide enough phosphorus for life on the planet. A public study by British and American scientists thus offers an alternative scenario to the generally accepted theory that we will live a meteorite in life, according to the AFP agency.

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Phosphorus is an essential building block of life as we know it and helps to form the basic structures of cells, double-stranded DNA and RNA. Billions of years ago, most phosphorus was found locked in the insoluble minerals of the young planet Earth.

One of these minerals, schreibersit, is highly reactive and can release phosphorus needed to form organic molecules, AFP explains.

Most of the Schreibersite found on Earth came from meteorites. However, Schreibersit can be found in rocks that look like molten glass and which were formed after a lightning hole in the soil rich in jl.

The scientists first studied the rock formed in this way and estimated the amount of Schreibersite on Earth at the time of the origin of life 3.5 billion years ago. According to the author of the study, Benjamin Hesse, lightning could then have produced a known amount of phosphorus. Ron was formed on Earth and 11,000 kilograms of phosphorus.

When simulating the Earth’s climate at the time, the study’s authors found that more phosphorus was formed by lightning than by meteorites. According to Hesse, this does not mean that meteorites are not behind the origin of life, but that the source of phosphorus, and therefore also life, could be vc.

In the next step, I want to find out if lightning could have created phosphorus on other planets, which meteorites only fall on. The frequency of meteorites has been declining over time, but lightning, at least on Earth, is relatively constant over time, Hess said.

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