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"Life Without Stars? Request for feedback on a chapter of a non-fiction book

12 pointsby JulianPGough5 months ago

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JulianPGough5 months ago
Hi, I’m Julian Gough. I write novels (most recently science fiction), children’s books, and hard-to-classify stuff like the End Poem for Minecraft. I’m currently writing a book about the universe, The Egg and the Rock, in public, online, to gather feedback as I go.<p>I recently published a piece called Life Without Stars: Stanets and Ploons, exploring the fascinating implications of a 2023 paper (Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium Cluster by Pearson and McCaughrean).<p>The paper reveals that many Jupiter-sized planets are forming in star-making regions, but don’t orbit stars. Some even form binary systems, orbiting each other without stars involved—completely upending standard planetary formation theories.<p>This has profound implications:<p>• Most liquid water in the universe is likely in subsurface oceans on moons. • These moons often orbit Jupiter-sized planets. • Starless planets can support more moons due to larger Hill spheres (stable zones for moons).<p>The surprising but logical conclusion is that most life in the universe might exist without stars.<p>I’d love your feedback, especially if you’re familiar with this area or simply have fresh thoughts on the topic. It will improve the book. Also, if anyone else has written about these implications, let me know so I can credit them!<p>Hope you enjoy the piece.<p>Happy 2025!<p>– Julian
specproc4 months ago
FYI: &quot;Without Sky&quot;[0] is a (IMO great) short story by Vladislav Surkov, a Kremlin insider. First thing I thought of when I saw the title, but that&#x27;s probably just me.<p>[^0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bewilderingstories.com&#x2F;issue582&#x2F;without_sky.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bewilderingstories.com&#x2F;issue582&#x2F;without_sky.html</a>
metalman4 months ago
earth is in the goldilocks zone for water, and also has a complete set of all of the elements availible everywhere,and also has localised temperatures from refractory to near cryogenic, ie: in siberia you have to heat the propane in your extream off road rig, or it freezes@-60° we also have surface pressures that vary from so low ,that life is tenious, to so high that life is impossible. All of this points to an almost infinite number of possible habitats and nitches for life to exist or originate in.Here. A basic rule of life is that any nitche will be filled and competed over, more edges, more species,more energy exchange,more competition, more more MORE, not neat, not tidy, not nice, Ice moons are going to be vastly simpler, and less energetic locations for life to exist, and if we do find one, localy, we will mine it for its yummy volitiles, and turn the rest into a salmon farm, yum.The Japanese will pay anything to set up exclusive hotels on an ice moon serving alien sashimi, no matter how tiny and strange, as its already one of there cultural norms. Hungry now.
floxy4 months ago
What source of energy is this life using?
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