Cool Early Water World Earth Theory on Fenix Rise

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The Cool Early Earth Theory is on a Fenix Rise. This time the old theory is revisited under new studies and under new major implications for the understanding of the origin of life here on Earth and the search for life beyond our Planet.

Just how little we know about almost everything is perhaps the greatest revelation of this report.

On May 8 International Press echoed the findings of a new study which assures that 4.4 billion years ago our planet was a Waterworld cover more than 90% with water. Only a few islands broke the surface. The study challenges the view on an Early lava flowing hot Earth.

The conclusions of this new report detached from a study which looked at the oldest fragments of the Earth ever found. Because of its cycle of destruction and generation really ancient rocks -such as those that existed when the planet was formed are not available but scientists do have rocks that a pretty old and they say these rocks can talk if one listens to them and learns their language, language which only a lucky handful thousands in this planet are proficient in.  

News Scientists reported that  Antony Burnham from the Australian National University led author of the new study is one of those rock language experts. What exactly did these ancient rocks whisper into Antony´s ear?

“In early history the Earth was covered in a global ocean,” Antony takes a strong stand. Established science assures that Early Earth was volcanic, magma flowing, violent and hot. But Antony´s findings are more aligned with another -less known Theory which goes in a completely opposite direction, the Early Cool Earth Theory.  

Antony Burnham came to the conclusion that the Earth was covered in oceans 4.4 billion years ago just by studying “tiny zircon mineral grains from a region of Western Australia” which contain the oldest rocks ever found.

“The history of the Earth is like a book with its first chapter ripped out with no surviving rocks from the very early period, but we’ve used these trace elements of zircon to build a profile of the World at that time,” lead researcher Antony Burnham explains.

“Our research indicates there were no mountains and continental collisions during Earth’s first 700 million years or more of existence -it was a much more quiet and dull place,” he says. “There are strong similarities with zircon from the types of rocks that predominated for the following 1.5 billion years, suggesting that it took the Earth a long time to evolve into the planet that we know today.”

Besides the amazing fact that scientists can draw such conclusions just from the study of tiny zircon rocks is the another amazing fact that these tiny zircon rocks are not actually new in the town.

In 2002 John Valley studied the same zircons rocks and reached similar conclusions to those that Antony reached. Valley then concluded that the Earth in its early stages was a cool planet with low temperatures where meteorite impacts were not that frequent and where liquid water and even conditions for life and life itself could have existed in long long long periods of time.

So according to this theory -Early Cool Earth -which seems to emerge from time to time our Planet right from the start would have been a Water World, mostly oceans with life conditions. Perhaps even large ice sheets would have existed back then...and this is rather more interesting but we will get to that later on in the day.

In 2016 scientists Gavin Kenny also studied the tiny zircon rocks and dismissed complete the theory assuring that some of them were actually formed by meteorite impacts and that in itself was proof that the Earth in its early stages was a meteorite hostile location.

Little the World has heard from the tiny zircon rocks until this month when the researcher Anthony Burnham once again assured that the most ancient rocks on Earth reveal that the Early Earth was cold and covered in water.

“Sediment melting is characteristic of major continental collisions, such as the Himalayas, so it appears that such events did not occur during these early stages of Earth’s history,” Burnham went scientific in his paper.

When we say Early Earth how back far in time do are we actually talking about? 4.4 billion years ago. The very stages following the formation of the planet, way back in time billions of years ago before the evolution of complex life forms, so much back in time that the Moon had not been yet formed nor put into orbit.

It is believed that bacterial life emerged on Earth at the end of the Bombardment Era (when meteorites and asteroids hit the Earth and the Moon was formed) around 3.8 billion years ago. But the nit and grid of it is that the Cool Early Earth Theory reveals that even before that conditions for life on Earth -water, basic elements, energy sources and gases were present.

Today we begin to understand that Water Covered Worlds are in fact very common in our Solar System -in planets and moons and even in beyond our Solar System.

Curiously the Cool Early Earth Theory reveals a planet which looks very much like these new Water Worlds which NASA, International Space Agencies and Scientific Community are so excited about.

IB Times recently reported that if life was found in another planet it would not be crawling nor walking it would likely be “swimming”. That's just how common water is in outer worlds. NASA´s Mantra Follow the Water in the Search for life beyond our planet has been echoed for decades and results are now reaping in.

In a Study of the Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Author Fergus Simpson of the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Cosmos Sciences stated “Earth itself is about 70 % water on its surface, but the alien planets are likely “dominated by oceans spanning over 90 % of their surface area”.

Fergus had it right in something. But if the Cool Early Water World Theory stands then the Earth too have once fallen into the 90% ocean coverage planet which is so common in what we see in outer space Water Worlds today. It may sound complex, and well it is complex but it can be understood and that is also fascinating.

What NASA is wondering -or perhaps no longer wondering but rather out to prove is that if life forms are found in these Ocean covered Moons of Saturn and Jupiter, on Mars, and other Water Worlds in our Solar System and beyond? And they are going at it with all they've got. Outer space telescopes, probes, scheduled to launch missions, on Earth studies and researching, astronomical interpretation, drones, you name it they've got it.

During the presentation of the paper published by researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn and Hubble Space Telescope -which studied Water Worlds similar to the Earth proposed in the Early Earth Water World Theory NASA representatives said.  

“This is the closest we've come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment,” Thomas Zurbuchen words -Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington.

“These results demonstrate the interconnected nature of NASA's science missions that are getting us closer to answering whether we are indeed alone or not.”

“Life as we know it requires three primary ingredients: liquid water; a source of energy for metabolism; and the right chemical ingredients, primarily carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur,” the media reported.

It is today believed that Ice on some of these 90% water covered planets are acting as an insulator.

But if you are familiar with the zircon studies and the Cool Early Earth Theory then you might say, hey wait, the theory and findings do not mention ice environments at all...or do they? Could Early Earth -once believed to be a lava flowing hot hostile environment have the right temperature not only to host liquid water but even to be as cool as to freeze water and create ice sheets?

BBC Science reports that Ice Ages have been going on and off for the past 2.6 million years. Impacting everything on Earth but what about before that? What about 4.4 billion years ago?

A study of the University of Berge went against all established believes as well and assured that “Early Earth may have been Ice Cold!”

“When Earth's first organisms were formed, it may have been in an ice cold ocean,” the paper published in Science Advances assures. The paper says that the entire Global Temperature of the Early Earth was cold, not only on land but in the oceans as well.

Again another study which goes against established studies which assure that the first oceans on Earth were near boiling point and that life originated in that caldrum.

"We have found evidence that the climate 3.5 billion years ago was a cold environment," the study of the author which worked with Professor Maarten de Wit from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa said.

"I think that this will force research to go further," the author of the paper said.

And that is perhaps the most clever statement of all statements made in this paper. It is still the most incredible fact the little we know about everything.