Dear all in this WhatsApp Chat and Other Readers
I would like to ask a question about this corona virus invasion
on Earth.
The question is down below.
But before that, let me give you some information to mull about the size
and numbers of this virus:
The size of viruses can range from about 20 to 400
nanometres in diameter (1 nanometre = 10^-9 meters).
The corona viruses have a genome size of approximately 27 to
34 kilobases which is the largest among known RNA viruses (1).
The estimated size of Covid19 is about 300 nanometer or 3 x 10 -7 meters (0.0,000,003 metres) based on an estimated calculation I made
(The smallest bacteria are about 400 nanometres in size)
The Radius of Earth is 6.371 million metres
Hence surface area of Earth is A = 4πr2 = 5.1 x 10^14 square
metres (510.1 trillion m²).
Suppose we now assume the present Covid19 began to invade the
entire surface of Earth either by:
1.
By human-to human transmission as most
virologists believe, or
2.
By seeding from comet’s debris coming from the
Oort’s Cloud beyond the Solar System between 0.03 to 3.2 light-years away from
the Sun as proposed by Sir Fred Hoyle and Nobel Prize Laureate Chandra
Wickramasinghe (born 1939) who showed the correlation between
the passage of comets near the vicinity of Earth and influenza pandemic on
Earth.
This was also theorized by Steven Hawking. All 3 of them were world-renown scientists from
the University of Cambridge.
They contended that life forms continue to enter the Earth's
atmosphere, and may be responsible for epidemic outbreaks, new diseases, and
the genetic novelty necessary for macroevolution in an Origins Symposium
presentation on April 7, 2009 (2).
In such a scenario we can expect the entire Earth surface
will be peppered by:
5.1 x 10^14 / 3 x 10 -7 meters =
1.7 x 10^21 (17 followed by 20 zeros) corona viruses
The reference human body has a
surface area of about 1.9 m^2
This means there will be a minimum
of 1.9 / 3 x 10-7 = 6 million viruses covering over the outer part of our body alone if they rained down from us from space, rather than transmitted by
human-to-human social contacts (assuming the surface area of corona viruses is
about the same as its total linear size of 0.0,000,003 metres).
Translated to the world’s population
of 7.8 billion (7800 million), this means if everyone is covered on the outside
of his body alone without the
viruses entering into his or her body to
multiply, there will be:
4.68 x 10^16 Covid19 over the
entire human body on Earth, or 2.75 X 10-3 % (0.0027 %) of what the entire Earth
gets if the spread continues
Having now given you all the
calculations and the info
My question now is:
Who is going to win the War of the
Worlds?
1.
The human race with our preventive and advanced
technology or
2.
The tiny, tiny, tiny Coronavirus invading Earth from
Outer Space
Give us your thoughts. This is a question based on the
Survival of the Fittest by Natural Selection as an extension of Charles Darwin’s
theory on:
The Origin of the Species
(when I did my postdoctoral further
education course on Evolution and the Mystery of Life at Cambridge, and later
on Astronomy at Oxford, and later back again to Cambridge to complete my course
in Forensic Toxicology, these were the typical type of forum questions assigned
in their tens of dozens in every course by
both universities for us students to answer
They just want to test our analytical and intellectual
ability).
Let’s see how we tackle this question I ask in return
Share with us your thoughts. It can be fun
Thank you
Lim jb
References:
2.
Fred Hoyle; Chandra Wickramasinghe & John
Watson (1986). Viruses from Space and Related Matters. University College
Cardiff Press.
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