Panspermia

The panspermia hypothesis is the idea that the building blocks of life are found in the interstellar medium, and are spread to suitable planets by the impact of comets and meteoroids that formed from such interstellar materials. The late Fred Hoyle and his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe have championed this idea, suggesting that life was originally brought to Earth that way, and is still being brought here in meteorites. Hoyle suggested that spontaneous influenza outbreaks might be the result of meteorites depositing biogenic organisms in our atmosphere or on the surface.

However, in the light of the exploded planet hypothesis, we see that the interstellar medium is apparently fed by the explosions of supernovas, novas, and perhaps also planets. The asteroids, meteoroids, and apparently all comets originated in the explosion of planets (or moons). So comets are fragments of exploded planets, not condensates of primordial clouds of gas and dust. As in the original panspermia hypothesis, comets and meteoroids are still the primary delivery vehicles for the raw materials for life (organic molecules) and for the simplest life forms (viruses and bacteria). But under eph premises, life itself gets nourishment, grows, and reproduces on planets, and is then spread to other planets and to the interplanetary and interstellar mediums by explosions.

We may already have the key pieces to the jigsaw puzzle of life, but may have been placing them in the wrong sequence to solve the puzzle. The eph guides us in that placement, opening up new opportunities to understand the whole picture of the evolution of life. Additional details of the panspermia/exploded planet hypothesis relationship are developed in a separate paper by Jewett. [[23]]