[RightWhale]

Dr Oliver Manuel, prof at the U of Missouri believes the sun is mostly iron, not hydrogen, and that the entire solar system is the remnants of a supernova 5 billion years ago. As evidence he cites the occurrence of strange xenon in the system.

"Manuel will present his the evidence for his assertion in his paper, "The Origin of the Solar System with an Iron-rich Sun," at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at the AAS' 199th annual meeting at the Hilton Washington and Towers in Washington, D.C."

I see this meeting already happened, but I will be looking for a CI rating from the attendees.

[RightWhale]

Bugs-from-space theory gets a boost

PARIS (AFP) Jan 09, 2002 The theory that meteorites carrying bacteria kickstarted life on Earth has been strengthened by a German experiment that placed bugs in orbit to see if they survived the brutal environment of space.

The Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius proposed the theory in 1903, contending that billions of years ago, bacteria drifting through the cosmos landed in the fertile soil of Earth, where they flourished and evolved into higher forms of life.

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CI score 80 due to lack of math in the theory.

[Alamo-Girl]

That particular theory didn't ring my bell at all - it's not on my list. I'm drawn to the much more fundamental aspects of physics – mathematical physics, theoretical physics, astrophysics – and, of course, differential geometry.