Re: Beginning of Life

Murphy (gmurphy@imperium.net)
Tue, 06 May 1997 17:21:10 -0400

Dick Fischer wrote:

> Here are some questions:
>
> 1. Could early planets, lacking in heavy elements, sustain life?

In the usual scenarios, only H & He isotopes, with slight traces
of Li-7 etc were made in the big bang. C & 0 would have been
negligible, & it's hard to see how you could have life without them.

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@imperium.net
http://www.imperium.net/~gmurphy