Birth of Earth
The birth of earth is depicted in the film showing its creation as a giant mass of
rock and water that is flying through space. As the only planet we are aware of that
sustains life, it is extraordinary. It's not just our home; it's also the only place in the
universe where we can feel safe. But how did it get here, though? What peculiar natural
processes produced this planet that is breathing and on which we depend?
There is just one place we know of where people can exist in the vastness of the
universe. The fact that the planet provides us with food, water, and air to breathe makes
it seem as though it was built specifically for us. We completely rely on it because it is
our own home, although it didn't exist 5 billion years ago. There was just a big cloud of
gas and dust where the earth is now in the outer parts of the Milky Way galaxy. But
according to the video our planet was formed about four and half billion years ago, as a
lifeless molten rock and emerged as what it is today through undergoing extreme
chemical changes.
Moreover, it was said that Earth was formed when tiny pieces of dust and rocks
in the solar system that were in orbit collided. The planet was first made of volcanoes
that erupted with lava, and it was molten and scorching hot. However, this lava was
cooled by the icy vacuum of space and covered the planet with the first rock known as
basalt, which gave it a black color. Despite the lifeless environment of Earth at this time,
some elements necessary for life can still be found in the minerals found in these rocks.
However, because of the extreme heat, new minerals were created that turned
the planet from black to gray, primarily due to granite, which served as the continents'
structural foundation. After that, water entered the picture and transformed the gray
earth blue. It was thought that because water is a solvent, it contained living things that
could interact with one another. Scientists examined for zircons, a substance with
structures that contained evidence about its surroundings and age, to prove this.
Zircons, which can only form in the presence of liquid water, were found in old rocks,
revealing that the earth was once a habitable planet.
Furthermore, the top layer of stromatolites, the earliest evidence of life, has
bacteria that draw minerals and sand from water and solidify them. Through
photosynthesis, the bacteria in the stromatolites derived their energy from the sun.
These chemical reactions leave behind chemical traces that result in the creation of
oxygen. The planet turned red when the iron in the early oceans reacted with oxygen to
make rust, which then sank to the bottom of the sea.
And once again, as a result of these interactions, new minerals were produced
that eventually formed new continents and brought about climate change. The earth
turned freezing white, killing off most life. Eventually, the ice was melted by the heat the
volcanoes produced. About 540 million years ago, when the ice melted, the planet
became green and habitat to fascinating animals and plants that survived by being the
fittest. Survival of the fittest becomes the usual in a different setting.
The theory that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals and
organisms and that rocks and life have an intertwined history was validated by the data
gathered by some scientists and other life research specialists, but will still remain an
enormous mystery that needs to be solved.