So whenever the topic of extra terrestrial life comes around people always mention how they could be way more different than we could predict and rather than being carbon based they could be silicon based. My question is why silicon? What makes it possible to sustain life?
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Silicone can form many bonds like carbon can. Unfortunately it’s too heavy to form heavier chains and won’t produce complex life, like what these media sources insist it can. Silicone based life will always be simpler than carbon. Carbon is the magic element, it can form long complex chains that silicone is too heavy for. Complex life will be built of carbon, not silicone. Only more simple life can be silicone based, but it can and likely will exist, maybe on other planets, but we will likely find it one day. It just won’t be as complex as we, carbon based life, is.
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