Journal of Cosmology, Volume 16 Contents

Volume 16

FROM ASTROCHEMISTRY TO ASTROBIOLOGY AND BEYOND

September-October 2011 issue of Journal of Cosmology, Volume 16

Marking 30 Years of Cometary Panspermia,

Following by 10 Years the Passing
of Fred Hoyle

CONTENTS

I. HISTORICAL RECORD

1. From Astrochemistry to Astrobiology - Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6519-6527

2. Formaldehyde polymers in interstellar space – N.C. Wickramasinghe, pp 6528-6532

3. Identification of the λ2,200A interstellar absorption feature – F. Hoyle and N.C. Wickramasingh, pp 6533-6536

4. Comets – A Vehicle for Panspermia - Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe pp 6537- 6546

5. A model of the 2-4μm spectrum of Comet Halley – D.T. Wickramasinghe, F. Hoyle, N.C. Wickramasinghe & S. Al-Mufti, pp 6547-6552

6. Comets, Ice Ages and Ecological Catastrophes - Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6553-6557

7. Radiation pressure on bacterial clumps in the solar vicinity and their survival between interstellar transits - N.C. Wickramasinghe and J.T. Wickramasinghe, pp 6558-6567

8. Progress Towards the Vindication of Panspermia – N.C. Wickramasinghe, M. Wainwright, J.V. Narlikar, P.Rajaratnam, M.J. Harris and D. Lloyd, pp 6568-6580

9. Viva Panspermia – Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6581-6586

10. Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life and Censorship – N.C. Wickramasinghe , pp 6587-6599

11. Convergence to God - Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6600-6615

11a. Possible Ancient Observation of Disintegrated Comet Impact In Southern Tibet - Mahesh U. Patil, pp 6615a-6628a

II. ASTROPHYSICS AND PANSPERMIA

12. Exchange of biomaterial between planetary systems – W.M.Napier, pp 6616-6642

13. From ìFrontiers of Astronomy to Astrobiologyî – Sun Kwok, pp 6643-6660

14. Interstellar Dust Grains – R. Gupta and D. B. Vaidya, pp 6661- 6670

15. Sources of Particulates in the upper stratosphere – E. Keith Bigg, pp 6677-6687

16. The Extinction of Sunlight by Atmospheric Loading – S.G. Coulson, pp 6688-6698

17. Siliceous Fragments in Space Micro-dust: Evidence for a New Class of Fossil - N. Miyake, M.K. Wallis and S Al-Mufti , pp 6699-6710

18. Panspermia-Natureís Exercise in Microbial Cultivation on a Vast Scale - Milton Wainwright, Sulamain Aharbi and Khalid Alabri, pp 6711-6717

19. The Search for Life on Mars – and Earth: A Call for Objectivity - Gilbert V. Levin, pp 6718-6749

20. The Viking Labeled Release Experiment Controversy – Why does it exist, and when will it end? - Barry E. DiGregorio, pp 6750-6762

21. Genetics Indicates Extra-Terrestrial Origins for Life: The First Gene, Did Life Begin in the "Moments" Following the Big Bang? Rhawn Joseph and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6832-6861

22. Origin of the genietic code: was the original mechanism lost or altered during evolution after the universal genetic code was virtually frozen?, Trevors, J. T., pp 6922-6940

23. The Biological Big Bang: The First Oceans of Primordial Planets at 2-8 Myr Explains Hoyle – Wickramasinghe Cometary Panspermia and a Primordial LUCA - Carl H. Gibson, N.C. Wickramasinghe and R.E. Schild, pp 6500-6518

III. INTELLIGENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

24. Creationism, Neo-Darwinism and Panspermia – Brig Klyce and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6763-6770

25. Testing Evolution - Lee M. Spetner, pp 6771-6775

26. Anthropic Reasoning about Fine-Tuning, and Neoclassical Cosmology:

Providence, Omnipresence, and Observation Selection Theory - Theodore Walker Jr., pp 6776-6798

27. Is Your Gut Conscious? Is an Extraterrestrial? - Jonathan Vos Post , pp 6799-6824

IV. ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

28. Why Are So Many Primitive Stars Observed In The Galaxy halo?, Carl H. Gibson, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Rudolph E. Schild, pp 6824-6831

29. Goodness in the Axis of Evil, Rudolph E. Schild and Carl H. Gibson, pp 6892-6903

30. A Quiet Cosmology and Halo Around the Visible Universe, Evgeny A. Novikov and Sergey G. Cefranov, pp 6884-6891

31. Interpretation of the Stephan Quintet Galaxy Cluster using Hydro-Gravitational-Dynamics: Viscosity and Fragmentation, Carl H. Gibson and Rudolph E. Schild, pp 6904-6921

V. EDUCATION

32. Astrobiological Studies Plan at UCSD and the University of Buckingham, Carl H. Gibson and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 6832-6883

VI. COMMENTARY ON JOSEPH & WICKRAMASINGHE ARTICLE "GENETICS INDICATES EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ORIGINS FOR LIFE: THE FIRST GENE, DID LIFE BEGIN IN THE "MOMENTS" FOLLOWING THE BIG BANG?".

1. Genetics does not hold an argument for the existence on panspermia for explaining the origin of life on Earth, Rob Hengeveld (The Netherlands), pp 7004-7012

2. What is the minimal genome?, David W. Ussery (Denmark), pp 7013-7016

3. Horizontal movement of genetic information during early evolution of life and the timescale for the origin of the first gene, Matti Jalasvuori (Finland), pp 7017-7020

4. Commentary on Joseph and Wickramasinghe Article , Trevors, J. T. (Canada), pp 7021-7026

5. The Big Bang, the Milky Way, and the Cradle of Life, Andrea Nani and Andrea E. Vavanna (UK), pp 7027-7031

6. A Brief Consideration of Early Panspermia Based on Astronomical and Celestial Mechanical Arguments, Johannes J. Leitner and Maria G. Firneis (Austria), pp 7032-7034

7. Environment and Selection Solve Monod's Problem, J. T. Woolf (USA), pp 7035-7043

8. Commentary, Amanda N. Laoupi (Greece), pp 7044-7049

9. What is life and why, how and when did it begin?, Pierre M. Durand and Richard E. Michod (South Africa, USA), pp 7050-7055

10. The Origin of Life on Earth: Changing the Paradigm, Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto (Brazil), pp 7056-7064

11. Does Cometary Panspermia Falsify Dark Energy?, Carl H. Gibson (USA), pp 7000-7003

VII. SPECTRAL AND METEORIC EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

33. An Integrated 2.5-12.5 micrometer Emission Spectrum of Naturally-Occurring Aromatic Molecules, N. C. Wickramasinghe, F. Hoyle and T. Al-Jubory, pp 7065-7069

34. Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa and Enceladus,
Richard B. Hoover, pp 7070-7111.

35. Primordial Planets Explain Interstellar Dust, the Formation of Life; and Falsify Dark Energy, Carl H. Gibson, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe and Rudolph E. Schild, pp 7112-7134

36. Interstellar Grains: 50 Years On, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, pp 7135-7151

37. Post-Biology versus Pre-Biology: Correspondence between N. C. Wickramasinghe and S. Kwok, pp 7152-7157

38. Making Bacteriophage DNA into a Movie for Panspermia, Victor Norris and Yohann Grondin, pp 7158-7176