The Biological Big Bang: The First Oceans of Primordial Planets at 2-8 Million Years Explain Hoyle/Wickramasinghe Cometary Panspermia · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1109.1262/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Biological Big Bang: The First Oceans of Primordial Planets at 2-8 Million Years Explain Hoyle/Wickramasinghe Cometary Panspermia — mentioned by bediger4000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3828245urn:hackerpapers:mention:1109.1262:3828245Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:21:49 GMT<p>Carl H. Gibson wrote a paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1262v1) that could just possibly explain why DNA is almost universal. It reads a bit science-fictiony, but the essence is that DNA could have formed fairly early in the universe&#x27;s life, when it was small, and spread along with the expansion of the universe itself.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1109.1262/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.CO