Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Life in the Universe is One Big Family
Some of the very latest astrobiology essentially shows that all life in the universe has the same origins.
Some scientists have very recently suggested that life took root just a few million years after the Big Bang and then spread like seeds throughout the vastness of space.
A NASA expedition to Saturn’s moon Titan within the next decade could actually reveal observational evidence as to whether these new ideas are correct.
Shortly after the Big Bang, about 12.72 billion years ago, the universe was extremely hot but as it expanded outward it rapidly cooled.
10 million years after the Big Bang the background temperature was 100C. 17 million years after the Big Bang the background temperature was 0C. If water was around then, it would have been in liquid form across space. But how could water be there?
If the first stars formed earlier than we previously assumed, such as 12 million years after the Big Bang, they could have created via fusion the elements needed for water and life (oxygen and carbon).
The first stars were massive and lived only briefly - 3 to 5 million years, before exploding as supernovae. That would have released the heavy elements, that coalesced into asteroids. Water could have formed puddles and lakes on these asteroids, with complex molecules and life arising.
But 17 million years after the Big Bang, all water froze, but perhaps life could survive in other liquids like ethane and methane, which don’t freeze above -182C. After 90 million years the universe temperature dropped below that temperature.
However, by that time many stars would have existed with orbiting planets. Life on these planets could persist by getting their energy from the nearby star itself.
Since then, life would continue to evolve in these narrow habitable zones throughout the universe, separated by vast distances.
Fascinating stuff, first thought up by astrophysicist Abraham Loeb in the shower in 2013.
Back in 2006, biologist Alexis Sharov analyzed how genetic material - DNA in Earth’s life evolved.
On average, the number of DNA base pairs doubled every 350 million years. It took 350 million years to go from fish with 250 million base pairs to mammals like us with 500 million base pairs.
Going back further, the earliest life on Earth were single-celled organisms called prokaryotes - bacteria and archea existing 3.7 billion years ago (age of Earth about 4.7 billion years old).
Problem is, the DNA of prokaryotes was far too complex to have evolved on Earth - there was not enough time. According to DNA complexity doubling time, prokaryotes evolved long before Earth formed, namely more than 10 billion years ago.
So it really looks like life on Earth has roots that stretch back to the universe’s infancy, with profound implications.
Please watch my video for more information.
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos.
Cheers…
Life in the Universe is One Big Family
Some of the very latest astrobiology essentially shows that all life in the universe has the same origins.
Some scientists have very recently suggested that life took root just a few million years after the Big Bang and then spread like seeds throughout the vastness of space.
A NASA expedition to Saturn’s moon Titan within the next decade could actually reveal observational evidence as to whether these new ideas are correct.
Shortly after the Big Bang, about 12.72 billion years ago, the universe was extremely hot but as it expanded outward it rapidly cooled.
10 million years after the Big Bang the background temperature was 100C. 17 million years after the Big Bang the background temperature was 0C. If water was around then, it would have been in liquid form across space. But how could water be there?
If the first stars formed earlier than we previously assumed, such as 12 million years after the Big Bang, they could have created via fusion the elements needed for water and life (oxygen and carbon).
The first stars were massive and lived only briefly - 3 to 5 million years, before exploding as supernovae. That would have released the heavy elements, that coalesced into asteroids. Water could have formed puddles and lakes on these asteroids, with complex molecules and life arising.
But 17 million years after the Big Bang, all water froze, but perhaps life could survive in other liquids like ethane and methane, which don’t freeze above -182C. After 90 million years the universe temperature dropped below that temperature.
However, by that time many stars would have existed with orbiting planets. Life on these planets could persist by getting their energy from the nearby star itself.
Since then, life would continue to evolve in these narrow habitable zones throughout the universe, separated by vast distances.
Fascinating stuff, first thought up by astrophysicist Abraham Loeb in the shower in 2013.
Back in 2006, biologist Alexis Sharov analyzed how genetic material - DNA in Earth’s life evolved.
On average, the number of DNA base pairs doubled every 350 million years. It took 350 million years to go from fish with 250 million base pairs to mammals like us with 500 million base pairs.
Going back further, the earliest life on Earth were single-celled organisms called prokaryotes - bacteria and archea existing 3.7 billion years ago (age of Earth about 4.7 billion years old).
Problem is, the DNA of prokaryotes was far too complex to have evolved on Earth - there was not enough time. According to DNA complexity doubling time, prokaryotes evolved long before Earth formed, namely more than 10 billion years ago.
So it really looks like life on Earth has roots that stretch back to the universe’s infancy, with profound implications.
Please watch my video for more information.
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos.
Cheers…
