Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world. Just add quintessential water
arXiv:2012.12079 · doi:10.1017/S1473550420000403
Abstract
Water nanoclusters ejected into interstellar space from abundant amorphous ice-coated cosmic dust offer a hypothetical scenario connecting major mysteries of our universe: dark matter, dark energy, cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world. Cosmic water nanoclusters also exhibit the dipole-moment anisotropy prerequisite to their birefringence property, which may explain recent CMB birefringence data possibly supporting quintessence.
arXiv comment25 pages; 10 figures
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