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>>14172959 (PB)

>Twenty-five years ago this month, Thomas Gold published a seminal manuscript suggesting the presence of a “deep, hot biosphere” in the Earth’s crust. Since this publication, a considerable amount of attention has been given to the study of deep biospheres, their role in geochemical cycles, and their potential to inform on the origin of life and its potential outside of Earth. Overwhelming evidence now supports the presence of a deep biosphere ubiquitously distributed on Earth in both terrestrial and marine settings.

Gold hypothesized that life in subsurface locales is supported by chemical sources of energy, rather than photosynthetic sources

the rocks that have (or could produce) “hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4), and other fluids… would seem to be the most favorable locations for the first generation of self-replicating systems,” keenly aware that “such life may be widely disseminated in the universe”

Gold also took issue with the limitations of peer review, where established scholars pass judgment on new ideas and new papers before publication, which in turn rewards incremental steps, but few bold ideas that provide breakthroughs. Evidence of the effects of peer review, in Gold’s view, comes from the sheer volume of great ideas that came out of the first half of the 20th century relative to the latter half

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/27/6895

Are they going into the hot biosphere? That is the oldest part of the living earth, where life existed long before the surface cooled.

In addition to the abiogenic oil, diamonds are formed in extreme heat and pressure; many scientist since Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, aka Paracelsus, have speculated that there are other beings, higher life forms, also existing in the hot biosphere, possibly even intelligent beings, far older that us, which the ancient's called elementals, salamanders, Jinns or stone eaters.

https://www.faena.com/aleph/the-four-elemental-beings-of-earth-according-to-paracelsus

–Stone eaters will attack this post.