Capitals – Questions cannot be more important and greater than how life began on Earth, and does it exist of some kind elsewhere in the universe, or are we alone in it? Therefore, an international group of astrophysicists and animal scientists joined forces to answer it through what they called the Origins Federation, consisting of scientists in Switzerland, Britain and the United States. They held a meeting yesterday, Saturday, in Washington, in a serious epic effort to find out whether life exists in the universe outside Earth?
In the meeting, they were optimistic about the possibility of discovering “thousands” of worlds bearing evidence of life of some kind outside the solar system within the next 10 to 20 years, based on their confidence in a series of upcoming achievements, including bringing samples of Mars rocks, and launching a probe that explores icy moons orbiting Jupiter. And Saturn in particular, in addition to the intensification of monitoring and eavesdropping with powerful telescopes, the most famous of which is James Webb, who surveys the depths of the universe in search of planets revolving around stars in distant galaxies, perhaps and perhaps they are suitable for life to germinate in.
The federation chooses its members from the Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, Switzerland, according to what Al-Arabiya.net saw in a report published by the British newspaper “The Sunday Times” today, Sunday, in which it also selects its scholars from the British University of Cambridge, as well as from Harvard and Chicago Universities.
A zoologist from the University of Cambridge, Dr Emily Mitchell is active in analyzing ancient fossils in search of clues about the conditions that led to evolution on Earth. She is now trying to discover whether life exists on other planets as well, and she said in a speech she delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science or AAAS conference, where the “union” was announced two weeks ago, that life is “almost certain and very common” all over the world. The universe is “and it is very likely” that we will eventually discover “signs” of the existence of extraterrestrial beings of some kind,” as she put it.
To find these “signs”, scientists need guidance from chemists and biologists of humans and animals working to reveal how life first appeared on Earth and how it began, evolved and continued, which could help discover habitable planets elsewhere in the universe. By identifying evidence of how life first began on Earth.
Otherwise, we are alone
Also working on the “Union” project is Dr. John Sutherland, 60, a British chemist who seeks to define and recreate the conditions on Earth when life first appeared 4 billion years ago, to understand how the first living cells met, and then began to reproduce.
As for the director of the “Union of Origins”, Professor Didier Queloz, born 56 years ago in Switzerland, and known as an astrophysicist, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with two of his colleagues, for his discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting a star other than the Earth’s sun, and since then more than 5,300 planets, while Union scientists are optimistic about the existence of “trillions more in the Milky Way alone,” especially since the “James Webb” space telescope has opened an opportunity to search for signs of habitability in those worlds, “where every point of light we see is an individual star, and many of them have planets orbiting around it,” said Amber Straughn, vice president of NASA’s James Webb program.
Astronomers usually explain that analyzing the spectral light emanating from those planets allows us to know whether there is water vapor in their atmosphere, and last November a list was prepared of the components of the atmosphere of a planet 700 light years away from Earth, including sodium, potassium, water and carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, which are signals that conditions exist for the emergence of life, but they are not sufficient. However, a day may come, carrying a surprise that answers in one second the puzzling question thousands of years ago, which is that life exists outside the earth, otherwise we are alone in the universe.
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