In the recent pandemic about the coronavirus, it’s impossible to avoid hearing about it in some form or another. Just a simple scroll through Facebook and other social media and it’s all people are posting about. It’s what people are discussing at schools, work, in the streets and everywhere else people gather. With that said, there’s a lot of discussion about the true origin of this new COVID-19 strain of the coronavirus. In addition to wondering if the virus itself is going to affect oneself, the question of where it truly came from still remains. Did the coronavirus come from space?
Coronavirus Origin
So where did this virus come from in the first place? Did it come from an animal passed onto a human? If so, which animal and how did the animal get it? Scientists have some clues, but still no solid answers which leaves the door for possibilities wide open. For all we know, the coronavirus came from space and here’s why.
The early universe
4.6 billion years ago, there was a solar nebula that formed from the explosion of a previous star. Yes, our Sun is not a first generation star! It is actually an offspring from a much older and more massive star. This older star was likely created after the 13.8 billion year old Big Bang event.
After the universe went into rapid expansion as we call the Big Bang, it materialized the basic ingredients to form the first generation stars. Just hydrogen and helium in large amounts were needed in order to form the first objects in space. So what does any of this have to do with COVID-19, you ask? We’re getting there. This is the true origin of the disease as we know it even if you have your doubts at this point.
Now back the the first star formation after the big bang period. Once these early stars formed, some of them grew into such a mass that the inner core became unstable. When this happens the star cannot hold itself together any longer and collapses further in a violent supernova explosion that does something incredibly interesting at this point.
It’s these very explosions in space that make chemistry much more interesting. When you have hydrogen and helium elements in one place and they explode into a supernova, these elements bond together in many different forms to create the other elements we are more familiar with. This massive explosions in space blasts these newly formed atomic elements all around it into space in the form of nebula; also known as cosmic dust so you can perhaps imagine better.
Cosmic collisions
This cosmic dust will try to escape from the explosive force of the supernova while at the same time the newly formed leftover core post explosion still holds incredible gravity and pulls the cosmic dust back in after it reaches its furthest stored energy points in space. In other words, this cosmic dust bubble stops at some point and starts to pull back in.
As this cosmic dust gets gravitationally bound, the core of the new star has already begun to spin and causes the nebula to follow suit as it gets organized into a nice and massive flat disc the size of our solar system. Much like the rings of the planet Saturn. This swirling and newly formed nebula disc has already started to form smaller planetesimals which are the smaller debris and rocks that eventually form the next stage called protoplanets.
In a solar system competition of just 5 to 10 million years, the disc shaped cosmic nebula looks less like a sombrero hat shape. It then starts to form much more like the solar system we know today that includes planets, moons, asteroid belts and comets to the outer region just past the 4 gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
The middle aged universe
From that first generation star explosion to the second generation solar system; we now have a diverse planetary makeup of everything we need on the periodic table of elements. These elements lay the groundwork for lifeforms that we are familiar with here today on Earth. This second generation star we call our Sun and the rest of the solar system took around 4.5 billion years to get set in a stable and safe rotation.
Life requires little threat of global space hazards to have its chance to finally manifest itself. This was only possible with the ingredients leftover from our parent star during its explosive death. Earth vacuumed up important elements needed for a stable life process.
The origin of life itself
Life origin itself is still ironically one of life’s greatest mysteries. Regarding what exactly got the first amino acids to branch together in a complex chain. Scientists do have a few theories, however. I won’t get into all those theories now but the leading scientific one is the theory of evolution.
Perhaps just like the solar nebula formation of our current solar system; life also scrambled and competed in similar ways just as a method of survival. According to Cosmos Magazine:
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles and his colleagues at the University of Illinois reached this conclusion after pioneering a new way to map the microbial family tree. Viruses did not evolve first, they found. Instead, viruses and bacteria both descended from an ancient cellular life form. But while – like humans – bacteria evolved to become more complex, viruses became simpler.
The origin of the coronavirus
Viruses compete to stay relevant just like all organisms. However, viruses are not considered a living organism themselves. Instead, they act a little like a parasite and inject themselves inside other living organisms. They are a particle that cannot survive without a host so they must regenerate quickly to stay in the game. And according to the CDC.gov website:
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2).
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are similar to the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir.
Early on, many of the patients at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China had some link to a large seafood and live animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. Later, a growing number of patients reportedly did not have exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread. Person-to-person spread was subsequently reported outside Hubei and in countries outside China, including in the United States.
So does this mean the coronavirus came from space or a bat from the initially reported Wuhan, China region of the world? No, not likely according to CDC as it is showing up in other parts of the world where the animals in the seafood markets of China were not present. The coronavirus did however, likely originate from a bat as mentioned by the CDC on March 12, 2020.
So did the coronavirus come from space?
With the rapid spread of the new strain of the coronavirus known as COVID-19; people across the globe as affected making this a pandemic. The panic ensues and consumes people who are not educating themselves on what the virus is in fact, and how to deal with it. It’s no surprise to see people flock to the stores to by toilet paper for a respiratory virus as they get their misinformation from social media friends instead of scientific sources that actually understand the virus itself. When people act out in panic and fear, does this make the human species more dangerous than the virus?
A Bat or Space origin?
The exact origin of the virus is still unknown but points to an animal of the bat species as identified with other coronavirus strains. To an evolutionist scientist the original origin is beyond this living generation of things. Instead, it’s more obvious where the virus truly originated from. A place where nothing once existed, then formed from 2 elements that exploded into a spectacular science experiment. This left a second generation with a more complete table of elements and everything we can sense today. So did the coronavirus come from space? Yes in fact it did, but it did not hitchhike on an asteroid in 2019 and hit the atmosphere as a meteor straight into Wuhan, China. No, instead like all forms of living and nonliving organisms and particles, the coronavirus was sparked off in an event that took place as long ago as 13.8 billion years into the past.
Did the coronavirus come from space then? Just by happenstance when the big bang occurred it put everything into a precise motion to form a first generation star. That star later exploded and gave birth to a second generation star and solar system. On a small planet we call Earth, all the collisions and all the events of history led up to a place in time where a virus would later be sub-formed. Humans would host this virus just like the sun hosts the planets.
Conclusion
Our lifeblood would keep this virus active and humans will spread it from species to species unknowingly. As humans fight to survive, so does this virus within us. In an evolutionary battle, the strong will survive. However, this is the 21st century and we have a new weapon to win our survival battles. We have an intellect of no other species on the planet. We have the ability to fight and win this virus war. Not with all the Lysol one can buy at the store, but we will win this battle with our minds. That is, if we choose to. Humans will win the battle against the coronavirus if we use our knowledge, work together and remain calm.
