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PUNTA CANA. Harvard's scientific community has once again surprised the world with a new theory suggesting that the origin of life on Earth could have been triggered by lightning. According to a recent study, the chemical reactions triggered by these natural phenomena could have been key in the formation of the first biomolecules.
The professor of chemical biology, who leads the research, raises a fundamental question: how did the nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites that make up our DNA spontaneously arise billions of years ago?
The research suggests that the combination of water, electrolytes and common gases under the influence of lightning may have given rise to the first biomolecules on our planet. This theory offers a clearer and more plausible alternative to the previous hypothesis that an asteroid brought the essential components for life.
Furthermore, lightning could have been a crucial source of carbon and nitrogen gases, necessary for the survival of biomolecular structures.
The new theory about the origin of life has come as a surprise to the scientific community, which has already valued the Big Bang theory and others. Recently, NASA has reached a historic milestone in our understanding of the Earth with the discovery of the ambipolar field, a weak but essential electric field that surrounds the planet. This discovery, achieved during the Endurance mission in May 2022, marks the first time that scientists have been able to measure this field, theorized more than 60 years ago. This discovery was echoed by the prestigious journal Nature. External source.