Life on Earth Originated from the Sun?

[rov1100]

Would it be even remotely possible that life came from solar flares or other fission material from the sun? That is not to say evolution occured but even that needed a starting point and nourishment in order to flourish.

[vascop]

No

[JonnyBoy12]

No as it would be too hot for life to start there as it would be burned up by the sun's fierce rays.

[sparkymick]

as the sun is made up of hydrogen and helium it seems unlikely.however how this stuff from the sun ( solar winds etc.) could mix with amino acids from other space dust ( odd molecules ) and it lands on earth ? drops into some mud as a molecule and by some freek of nature replicates itself. this could be the start of all of us

[LazyGun]

I dont think it likely that the Sun can have a direct attribution to the formation of life on earth, although stars are indirectly needed ( to offer the elementary chemical building blocks, C,P,O N etc ) , and of course more specifically to offer an ambient temperature for life to thrive.

Plenty of people have speculated that life on earth originated through bacteria transported to earth by comets, meteorites etc - this theory is called panspermia - but there are reasons why it is not especially plausible, based upon what we currently know. Wiki has a nice page on it, but do scroll down and read the reasons why panspermia is not more widely thought to be the originator of life on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

[MarkRae]

^^ Joni Mitchell certainly thought so...

[gen2]

Incidentally, the reactions in the sun are nuclear FUSION ot fission.

[flobadob]

I think meteors and/or asteroids are the generally accepted sources of any outside involvement of life on earth.

[rowanwitch]

quite nice being such stuff as stars are made of

[jake-the-peg]

Well kind of Eddie - technically the sun does fuse Helium 3 to form Beryllium 6 which then decays to Helium 4

and the Sun will of course form other elements in later phases of its life cycle.

You also don't have to go to the ancient Universe to see these Early stars, they are (confusingly) called Population II stars and have very few elements other than Hydrogena and Helium in them.

Around the outside of galaxies you get small star concentrations in "globular clusters" orbiting the galaxy

I'm not sure how these old stars still exist in globular clusters - not sure anyone is.

[MarkRae]

It took me many years round the concept that a newly born baby which didn't exist a year ago, is composed of particles created billions of years ago...

[JonnyBoy12]

It took you many years, markrae, but I am still getting my head round the idea. Life is not a malfunction they tell us.

[Old_Geezer]

Who told you that ?
Unsure what was functioning in order to malfunction and cause life.