Scientists: Life on Earth came from mercury

English scientists have come to a sensational conclusion that life on Earth originated after the conflict with the giant cosmic body. In the process of a number of experiments they got to figure out what it was mercury.

Geochemists ANC Vohlers and Bernard wood of Oxford Institute in an article for the journal Nature has identified a hypothesis, according to which at early step of development of the Earth collided with another planet that is similar volumes on mercury. This clash has launched a chemical reaction with the participation of sulfur, which contained an unknown planet.

Therefore in the bowels of the Earth have any radioactive uranium and Thor, which was heated and to melt the iron of the earth's core. Similar warming of our planet has created the conditions for the development of life. His main point was the formation of the result of the conflict, a powerful magnetic field. Directly it could save all life on Earth from cosmic radiation.

Scientists assume that the body that collided with Earth, could be mercury or hypothetical Theia. In the latter case, this could lead to the formation of the moon, what was written about Days.Ru. To find out a guess, geochemists have created a computer model of the Earth's collision with another planet.

It was found that in only 2 sizes fit body - mercury and Mars. In addition, it was studied the metal content of neodymium and samarium in the bowels of the Earth, which was identical with mercury. The results of this study endorse the theory, according to which the Earth has undergone in the last collision with a massive body, most likely, mercury, and explains the appearance of the planet's magnetic field and artificial satellite.

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