Cyanide... The Founder of Earth

Our beloved home we call earth, until recently was more unknown to us as the human race than we thought. A few days back a new theory of earths founder of life was propposed by scientists studying Astrobiology and Evolution. Their proposal stated that the source of organic matter on earth was from out of our world, literally. They believe that it is from the cyanide( usually associated with a deadly gas) imbedded within the core of asteroids and meteorites crashing to earth.

For this theory to make sense we must go back in time... Millions of years back earth was said to have had a composition similar to our sun's, just with loads of carbon, methane, and hydrogen within the earths hold. But if this was the only organic compounds found on earth we would not survive, yet here we are today. One theory is that the elements would react and electrons, neutrons and protons would split and form entirely new elements all due to the intense heat reactions provided by thunderous lightning bolts. But this theory is highly unlikely, for several reasons. Example the intense amount of energy required to split the nucleus.

The latest theory proposd is that cyanide was brought along to earth from rocks flying freely in space i.e. asteroids and meteorites. The theory is that when these rocks crashed into the surface of the earth the intense amount of energy released in the form of heat would radically alter the chemical composition of the cyanide within the rock. And with this explosion new elements and our source of life would be created.

Once again thanks for reading, comment if you would like me to clear some facts up. By the way www.newscientist.com is a great site with more info on this story.