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    Silicon vs. Carbon: Why is Silicon-Based Life So Unlikely?

    Please let me know if my queries are inappropriate for this forum, and if so, any alternative forum suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I realize I'm pushing an unnatural idea, but it's for a story I'm writing. So, without getting into too much detail at this point, let's use those...
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    Does Gravity Instantaneously Disappear When a Massive Object Vanishes?

    Gell Model Hi there. Whenever I think of, or rather visualize, objects in space curvature, I see balls in a sea of clear gell. Each ball pushes the "gell" away with an outward force; perhaps gravity is as much a repulsion as it is an attraction. The dominant mass will of course be the main...
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    Silicon vs. Carbon: Why is Silicon-Based Life So Unlikely?

    Hi Panda. Thanks for replying. Let's see if I got this straight, or if I'm forcing an idea. I'll start here: A carbon-based life form could evolve to subsist on silicon-based energy sources (foods) through its evolution environment?
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    Silicon vs. Carbon: Why is Silicon-Based Life So Unlikely?

    Off-subject: silicon-based foods Hi there. I'm new to this forum, so I hope to find some fun, creative thinkers, as well as some hard-nosed curmudgeons. I'd like to put forth a hypathetical question: If a being subsisted on silicon-based foods, what would he eat in our world; what...
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