What if there was no Moon? - Early Stages and Today
Life is so perfect, just no words to describe these comforts. The oceans, the seas and their soothing noise is just enough for a night to be romantic. The tides, the seasonal changes and the sufficient warming of planet Earth is one of the absolute reasons of why Earth is considered to be in a habitable region. Moon, therefore adds natural beauty in the dark night sky and as the most common reasons, controls tide in the seas.
But what if we had no romantic night, what if we had extremely violent tides, what if we had bizarre seasons? What if there was no moon?
Many years ago, our ancient star exploded in an incredible massive super nova leaving behind dust, gases and icy particles. Due to the science of density and masses, and with the help of Newton's law of gravitation, dense substance like dust and ice were left in center while gases gathered in the outer zone. Dust, therefore, started colliding with each other hence forming large rocky substance full of fuel and energy. Much of these rocks further went through in colliding and formed a huge spherical globe out of it. Hydrogen and helium in this huge ball combined together and the large amount of energy started fusion reaction between them, a reaction in which Hydrogen nuclei converts into Helium nuclei.
And then a G-type star, our new Sun came to life. The left over dust, rocks and ice resulted in the formation of planets, while the gases which were in the outer edge, formed into gas planets. A reason to why we have rocky planets in the inner of our solar system while gaseous in the outer. Some of the dust were thrown away by the gases during super nova to the outer edge and that is why we have only one rocky planet, Pluto.
Our empty earth had nothing, no life, no water, and many asteroids fell down to unprotected Earth by its gravity. Our blue gem, was not habitable in the very beginning, rather it was super voilent. Our Earth's spin was much more faster than what it is today. 8 hours day, 8 hours night was not enough to start life on Earth. Plants cannot produce enough oxygen in just 8 hours daylight. And as the Carbon Cycle process failed, bacteria was not able to create enough Carbon Dioxide for plants to live. So in any case, habitability of the planet didn't get the tough measure. Our newly born Earth couldn't sustain life on it. And for the artistic measure, it wasn't really a blue gem. In other words, it was a horrible place to live. Volcanic eruptions, asteroid attacks and a very high temperature, 95% of it have been really shut down today.
But what interesting is, we had 9 planets in the beginning. There was another planet, much likely the size of the Red Planet, in between the Earth and Mars. But it was too close to the earth's orbit that a huge collision occurred for about 4.5 Gya (four and a half billion years ago) in the Hadeon eon. Well these are just the hypothesis, but probably, it is more likely to have happened. This meaningful incident, caused the creation of moon, caused the spin to slow down and tilted our earth to an axis of 23.5° from the North which gave us the four seasons. The moon then started galvanizing itself to protect Earth from asteroids giving Earth a whole new life to form.
This was the most brilliant and scintillating thing happened in history of our Solar System enabling us,i mean, the intelligent life to exist. Now plants, had enough time to go through the process of photosynthesis and form enough oxygen to hold life. Ozone started forming on the upper atmosphere of Earth protecting us from UV radiations and Cosmic radiations. Our planet began stabilizing, iron core began to cool down now allowing bacteria to generate itself which later became a main source for the existence of Human Beings and animals. The violent planet began to form into a blue gem of life. The iron core created a strong magnetic field, a feature that other planets lack, protecting Earth from dangerous solar flares. The same solar flares which snatched the habitability of Mars.
So today, we are living in a very warm and nice world where everything is moderate for life to exist. But what if, our Earth lived without a moon. Many studies being carried out, more of which shows the drastic results of no moon. Some say that even if we have no tides in the oceans, that doesn't seem to effect the habitability of this gem. But no-tide theory is wrong and misleading when habitability is concerned.
Habitability doesn't just depends on if a planets lies in a *Goldilocks's zone, but also it depends on the nature of that planet. Many planets do exist in Goldilocks's zone like Kepler-186f, which is exactly as same as our earth when size and mass are considered but potentially holding life there is definitely a No No! There are many water worlds like Kepler-22b which are not suitable for life.
And when Moon is considered, it plays a very significant role in the stability of a potential life existing planet. So what if our moon disappears or say it like our blue gem existed without a moon. To be simple, what if there was no moon?
Asked from many people for what they thought when we questioned them this. They said, no tides. Yes, it is the most common thing which we can suggest. But the truth is, we will have tides. Tides form due to the gravitational pull by our moon. Our sun, being far away and moon to be too near, has no influence on Earth tides. So if we had no moon, Sun would have that influence then. Earth would start wobbling due to water being attracted towards our Sun and because our Earth is made up of 70% of liquid water. This would result in massive tides all around the earth. Whole water will shift from northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere as Earth revolves around the Sun. This would result equators to be very hot and dry in summers while very cold and wet in winters. While the rest of the world will face drastic changes in temperature. It would stop the cultivation of plants as salt in oceanic water will cause soil salinity, while poultry animals would simply die due to these tides. Humans would survive if they have an option for that.
Wobbling on the other hand, would cause slowing down in speed of the revolution of Earth, which means the Earth will have an year of more than 365 days. This would result in much bigger seasons, if any, disturbing the whole moderation of blue gem.
New species of animals will occur, which will have a body to make them live in such a place. They will be big to suit themselves with the big tides. This would later disturb the level of oxygen. Oxygen will start decreasing with the visible increments in the level of Carbon Dioxide. This would make Earth sometimes colder and sometimes hotter than moderate coldness and hotness.
We would then have two Ice Ages every years causing the extinction of life. Bacteria would die as they live in temperatures between 19°C-24°C, that optimal temperature will no longer exist.
Our blue gem, will not remain a blue gem then. The best place to live becomes the worst place to live. Love the moderation of your planet Earth and save it. One change will cause disasters.
*Goldilocks's zone is an area around a Star where a planet could sustain liquid water to flow on its surface.
But what if we had no romantic night, what if we had extremely violent tides, what if we had bizarre seasons? What if there was no moon?
And then a G-type star, our new Sun came to life. The left over dust, rocks and ice resulted in the formation of planets, while the gases which were in the outer edge, formed into gas planets. A reason to why we have rocky planets in the inner of our solar system while gaseous in the outer. Some of the dust were thrown away by the gases during super nova to the outer edge and that is why we have only one rocky planet, Pluto.
Our empty earth had nothing, no life, no water, and many asteroids fell down to unprotected Earth by its gravity. Our blue gem, was not habitable in the very beginning, rather it was super voilent. Our Earth's spin was much more faster than what it is today. 8 hours day, 8 hours night was not enough to start life on Earth. Plants cannot produce enough oxygen in just 8 hours daylight. And as the Carbon Cycle process failed, bacteria was not able to create enough Carbon Dioxide for plants to live. So in any case, habitability of the planet didn't get the tough measure. Our newly born Earth couldn't sustain life on it. And for the artistic measure, it wasn't really a blue gem. In other words, it was a horrible place to live. Volcanic eruptions, asteroid attacks and a very high temperature, 95% of it have been really shut down today.
But what interesting is, we had 9 planets in the beginning. There was another planet, much likely the size of the Red Planet, in between the Earth and Mars. But it was too close to the earth's orbit that a huge collision occurred for about 4.5 Gya (four and a half billion years ago) in the Hadeon eon. Well these are just the hypothesis, but probably, it is more likely to have happened. This meaningful incident, caused the creation of moon, caused the spin to slow down and tilted our earth to an axis of 23.5° from the North which gave us the four seasons. The moon then started galvanizing itself to protect Earth from asteroids giving Earth a whole new life to form.
This was the most brilliant and scintillating thing happened in history of our Solar System enabling us,i mean, the intelligent life to exist. Now plants, had enough time to go through the process of photosynthesis and form enough oxygen to hold life. Ozone started forming on the upper atmosphere of Earth protecting us from UV radiations and Cosmic radiations. Our planet began stabilizing, iron core began to cool down now allowing bacteria to generate itself which later became a main source for the existence of Human Beings and animals. The violent planet began to form into a blue gem of life. The iron core created a strong magnetic field, a feature that other planets lack, protecting Earth from dangerous solar flares. The same solar flares which snatched the habitability of Mars.
So today, we are living in a very warm and nice world where everything is moderate for life to exist. But what if, our Earth lived without a moon. Many studies being carried out, more of which shows the drastic results of no moon. Some say that even if we have no tides in the oceans, that doesn't seem to effect the habitability of this gem. But no-tide theory is wrong and misleading when habitability is concerned.
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| Kepler 186f |
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| Kepler 22b |
Asked from many people for what they thought when we questioned them this. They said, no tides. Yes, it is the most common thing which we can suggest. But the truth is, we will have tides. Tides form due to the gravitational pull by our moon. Our sun, being far away and moon to be too near, has no influence on Earth tides. So if we had no moon, Sun would have that influence then. Earth would start wobbling due to water being attracted towards our Sun and because our Earth is made up of 70% of liquid water. This would result in massive tides all around the earth. Whole water will shift from northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere as Earth revolves around the Sun. This would result equators to be very hot and dry in summers while very cold and wet in winters. While the rest of the world will face drastic changes in temperature. It would stop the cultivation of plants as salt in oceanic water will cause soil salinity, while poultry animals would simply die due to these tides. Humans would survive if they have an option for that.
Wobbling on the other hand, would cause slowing down in speed of the revolution of Earth, which means the Earth will have an year of more than 365 days. This would result in much bigger seasons, if any, disturbing the whole moderation of blue gem.
New species of animals will occur, which will have a body to make them live in such a place. They will be big to suit themselves with the big tides. This would later disturb the level of oxygen. Oxygen will start decreasing with the visible increments in the level of Carbon Dioxide. This would make Earth sometimes colder and sometimes hotter than moderate coldness and hotness.
Our blue gem, will not remain a blue gem then. The best place to live becomes the worst place to live. Love the moderation of your planet Earth and save it. One change will cause disasters.
*Goldilocks's zone is an area around a Star where a planet could sustain liquid water to flow on its surface.
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