Can life exist without gravity? My physics teacher asked this question today, and we disagreed on the answer?
Great Question OK- 2 parts 1.On a cosmic scale- You are right. Without gravity, nothing in our iniverse would exist at a level higher than coalesced energy, which, even if able to bind at a sub-atomic level, would be unable to bind atomically without the force of gravity wich occurs on an atomic scale. 2. On a system specific scale, you are essentially right. If he was talking about still having the existence of gravity on a universal or cosmic level, and sending life created within a gravitational field into a region without a gravitational field, the following would occur. The “life” that we send into a zero gravity region is a system of atoms that was created in and depends on gravity to survive. NASA’s open questions to the public about re-creating earths gravity in space is an attempt to lengthen the duration of time that a person can stay in space in a man made optimum environment. As soon as a person leaves the earths gravitaional field, several things start to occur in the body
