I saw a boron-based life form in a sci-fi show and it made me curious about how that works. I did some reading on it, and all I see is around the oxidation states and the ability to bond with atoms.
I vaguely grasp these concepts, but don’t get why, if it is possible for boron to build life, why can’t we/haven’t we done it?
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Carbon is better as a base for life than anything we know of, even boron or silicon. More than that, we have examples all around us to learn from.
And yet we cannot yet build carbon-based life from scratch. So it stands to reason that boron will take longer.
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