Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world. Just add quintessential water

TL;DR

This paper proposes that water nanoclusters ejected from cosmic dust could link key cosmic mysteries, including dark matter, dark energy, and the origins of life, through their unique physical properties.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hypothesis connecting water nanoclusters to cosmological phenomena and astrobiology, suggesting their role in explaining dark energy and the RNA world.

Findings

Water nanoclusters exhibit dipole-moment anisotropy.

Potential explanation for CMB birefringence data.

Hypothesized link between cosmic water and major universe mysteries.

Abstract

Water nanoclusters ejected into interstellar space from abundant amorphous ice-coated cosmic dust offer a hypothetical scenario connecting major mysteries of our universe: dark matter, dark energy, cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world. Cosmic water nanoclusters also exhibit the dipole-moment anisotropy prerequisite to their birefringence property, which may explain recent CMB birefringence data possibly supporting quintessence.