Sol is a remarkably stable star--or so I understand but honestly I'm not doing a lot of heavy research here. It is estimated that in 5 billion years or there about it will bloat out consume Mercury, and Venus, and leave the Earth uninhabitable...but what if that already happened?
Consider, gold, uranium, are both considered to be deposits from the hearts of stars that went supernova, but what if those deposits were left behind as Sol contracted? Basically everything we guess about how water, atmosphere, etc, could equally have happened after a stellar collapse just as easily as if they had happened just after Sol's initial ignition sequence. The Earth and Mars for that matter both have a lot of iron at surface level. One byproduct of the fusion/fission cycle is iron. Could the Earth, Venus, and Mercury, have been a happy accident of the stellar equivalent of a bezoar whose mass was just right to be left in their current orbital plane? The coincidence to me seems just as likely as our typically accepted theories.
So if the Earth was a mass of indigestible matter left floating in space around a contracting star, it would have been molten--it's kind of hot in a star--and vulcanization would have been prevalent. So we are back to volcanoes providing much of our atmosphere and water. We could still have comets crashing into it and delivering even more water. We could still have a comet smash into the Earth and give us Luna. Basically everything could still happen as thought through, but what if the moment of beginning was just a little different?
That's my thought on it. Odd quirky theory? Probably. Something to ponder? Probably not unless that's your kind of fun.
Anyway, thanks for reading my weird idea and have a great day.
Maura
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