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Essay

Could Mars Have Intra-planetary Life?

Matti Pitkänen 1

Abstract

A popular article in National Geographic tells about unexpected findings made by the first robotic
geophysicist, the Insight lander revealed in the European Planetary Science Congress and in the
American Astronomical Society. There are odd magnetic pulsations with frequency around 10 mHz
occurring at Martian night-time: for Earth these pulsations occur in frequency range 1 mHz to 1
Hz. Mars has much stronger magnetic field as expected. The magnetic field was detected at heights
96-400 km. Besides this there is evidence for the existence for a global electrically conductive layer
about 6 km below the surface, which suggest an underground reservoir of water. This has enormous
implications for potential existence of life in Mars. There is also earlier evidence for the existence of
salty, liquid water measuring about 19 km across. In this article I discuss the findings from TGD
point of view.

1 Introduction

A popular article in National Geographic (see http://tinyurl.com/y5unt6y7) tells about unexpected
findings made by the first robotic geophysicist, the Insight lander revealed in the European Planetary
Science Congress and in the American Astronomical Society. There are odd magnetic pulsations with
frequency around 10 mHz [1] (see http://tinyurl.com/y3ll8kcg) occurring at Martian night-time: for
Earth these pulsations occur in frequency range 1 mHz to 1 Hz. Mars has much stronger magnetic field as
expected: the strength is rather near to that of Earth at Earth radius if it extends so far. The magnetic
field was detected at heights 96-400 km.

Besides this there is evidence for the existence for a global electrically conductive layer about 6 km
below the surface, which suggest an underground reservoir of water. This has enormous implications for
potential existence of life in Mars. There is also earlier evidence for the existence of salty, liquid water
measuring about 19 km across (see http://tinyurl.com/ycjaky5g).

In the sequel I will discuss the findings from TGD point of view. For years ago I developed what I
called expanding Earth model [8, 7] with motivation coming from the finding that if the radius of Earth
is 1/2 of its recent value, continents fit nicely together. This strengthens Wegener’s finding. In TGD
smooth cosmic expansion is replaced with a sequence of rapid steps, and the proposal was that the rapid
expansion increasing the radius by factor 2 could explain the sudden emergence of highly developed life
forms in Cambrian explosion. They would have bursted from underground ocean as the crust of Earth
broke to continents and led to the formation of oceans.

The model solves several problems related to the evolution and allows also new view about the evo-
lution of climate replacing the snowball Earth model. The new findings allow to develop the model
further.

1. Also Mars would have magnetic field but it would contain only the part for which flux tubes
carry monopole flux so that no currents would be required to maintain it. Also Earth would have
monopole part of field besides ordinary part requiring currents to maintain it. The monopole part
would correspond to what I have called endogenous magnetic field with strength 2/5 of the magnetic
field of Earth [5].

1Correspondence: Matti Pitkänen http://tgdtheory.com/. Address: Rinnekatu 2-4 A8, 03620, Karkkila, Finland. Email:
matpitka6@gamail.com.

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Van Allen belts would be present but carry dark matter in TGD sense and would bring ions of the
solar wind to the interior of Earth - in particular to the ocean below martial surface. The ionosphere
in the oceans below crust would not be lost to the outer space so that the oceans would serve as a
womb for the prebiotic evolution. The model explains why the magnetic field has not been detected
but explains the mysterious finding that auroras requiring the presence of magnetic field appear
also in Mars.

2. The standard model assumes that the outer core of Mars somehow disappeared and that this led to
the collapse of the magnetic field. TGD model suggests the opposite. Mars has never had separate
inner and outer cores. In the case of Earth the expansion doubled the radius of the core and it split
to inner and outer core and outer core gave rise to the ordinary magnetic field.

3. The prebiotic evolution in the interiors of Earth and Mars has been discussed already earlier [6, 2, 3].
The recent findings lead to a more detailed picture. Solar radiation propagating as dark photon along
monopole flux tubes to the underground oceans and transforming to ordinary photons (bio-photons)
would make possible photosynthesis in the underground ocean producing also oxygen. This would
allow oxygen based metabolism. The underground water containing the life forms would burst to
the surface in the expansion. The emergence of the convective inner core would create ordinary
magnetic field preventing the leakage of the atmosphere and life would continue to evolve in the
oceans.

2 TGD based model for the findings and for intra-martial life

The strange findings about Mars [1] can be understood in the framework provided by TGD based model
for expanding Earth providing also explanation for the mysterious Cambrian explosion assuming that
the life developed in Earth’s interior, TGD based notion of magnetic field, and dark matter identified as
phases with nonstandard value heff = nh0 of Planck constant.

2.1 Connection with the model of Expanding Earth

These findings bring in mind TGD based model for expanding Earth [8, 7, ?] (see http://tinyurl.com/

yc4rgkco, http://tinyurl.com/yb68uo3y, and http://tinyurl.com/ya68nggs).

1. The observation is that if Earth has radius one half of itse recent radius the continents fit nicely
together to cover entire surface of Earth. This lead to the proposal that during Cambrian explosion
in which highly developed life formed mysteriously emerged, the Earth radius grew by factor 2 in
a relatively short time. The life would have evolved in Mother Gaia’s womb, underground oceans
perhaps between crust and astenosphere at depth not larger than 80 km, shielded from cosmic rays
and meteoric bombardment.

2. The sudden expansion can be modelled in TGD inspired new physics as a phase transition increasing
the p-adic length scale of Earth and reducing the scale dependent cosmological constant assignable
to Earth by factor 1/4: these kind of phase transitions replace smooth cosmological expansion in
TGD inspired cosmology.

This led to the splitting of the continuous crust to continents and oceans emerged as the water from
underground oceans containing the highly developed life forms bursted to the surface.

3. The intriguing coincidence is that Mars has radius which is 1/2 of Earth’s recent radius. Could
also Mars have underground ocean with rather developed life forms waiting for the moment of
birth? Magnetic field is necessary in TGD based model of life and the article tells that Mars has
unexpectedly strong magnetic field. It also tells about underground ocean at death about 100 km!
The boundary between Earth’s core and astenosphere, where the ancient oceans might have been
is at dept of about 80 km.

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2.2 There is something weird in the magnetic field of Mars

The assumption that magnetic field of Mars can be approximated as a dipole field leads to a paradoxical
situation in Maxwellian framework.

1. Wikipedia article about Earth’s magnetosphere (see http://tinyurl.com/y3t78oka) gives a crite-
rion for the height below which magnetic field can survive under the pressure caused by solar wind.
The criterion reads

RCF

RP
= (

B2

ρswv2sw
)1/6 .

Here RP is planet radius, B is the strength of the magnetic field at its surface, and ρsw and vsw
are the mass density and velocity of solar wind. The ratio RCF /RP is essentially the ratio of the
density of magnetic energy and density of kinetic energy. This implies that the strength of B is
about 10 times higher than the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field at surface about .5 Gauss.
The recent findings should increase the earlier estimate RCF /RP ∼ 1 given in Wikipedia. For Earth
the thickness of magnetosphere is about 10 times Earth radius giving RCF /RP ∼ 11.

2. The strength of magnetic field behaves like 1/r3 in dipole approximation and scaling RP by factor
2 would reduce magnetic field strength at surface down by factor 1/8, which is near to value of the
Earth’s magnetic field strength BE . Could one think that also Earth had similar magnetic field be-
fore the expansion an that the expansion of Earth radius by factor 2 gave rise to the recent magnetic
field? BMars ∼ 10BE however suggests that the magnetic field of Mars in dipole approximation
should actually extend equally far as the Earth’s magnetic field! This does not seem to make sense.

Could one think that the matter at the flux tubes of Martian magnetic field is dark matter as heff =
nh0 phases and is not visible in the ordinary sense. For instance, cyclotron energies proportional
to heffeB/m would be much higher than expected. Another option is that the magnetic field
corresponds carries monopole fluxes at its flux tubes carrying dark particles.

What looks mysterious is that if Martian magnetic field is dipole field in reasonable approximation, it
should be more or less like Earth’s magnetic field! One would expect cyclotron radiation and van Allen
belts. Why they are not seen? The answer could be simple.

1. Also Earth’s magnetic field would decompose to stable part for which flux tubes carry quantized
monopole flux and ordinary part. Monopole part does not need current to sustain it and this has
been used to explain why Earth’s magnetic field has not disappeared long time ago. The varying
part of the Earth’s magnetic field would be created by convection currents in the solar. Since Mars
does not have outer core, it would not have this part of magnetic field. I have proposed this model
for the maintenance of Earth’s magnetic field at [5] (see http://tinyurl.com/y5anawyk).

2. I have assumed that dark matter as heff = nh0 phases of ordinary matter essential for life resides
at the flux tubes of this field having strength which is 2/5 of the Earth’s ordinary magnetic field.
I have called this field endogenous magnetic field and its existence and existence of heff hierarchy
was deduced from the explanation of quantal effects of ELF em fields on vertebrate brain. If Mars
has only dark magnetic field, the magnetic field of Mars could be invisible! The ordinary part of this
magnetic field should appear in the analog of Cambrian explosion as the radius of Mars increases to
that of Earth and core radius increase by factor 2 and the core becomes unstable against division
to two layers.

3. It has been thought that Martian magnetic field is so weak because the outer core of Mars has
been seized up in distant past leading to a collapse of the magnetic field. Could one think that the
reverse of this process took place for Earth in the expansion and created the outer core, perhaps by

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splitting of the core to outer and inner core? This picture would fit nicely with the p-adic length
scale hypothesis suggesting layered structures with thickness of layer coming as some power of 2:
the thickness of core would have double and core would have divided to two layers. If the strength
of the Earth’s magnetic field has been stronger by factor 8 before Cambrian explosion, this should
be seen in magnetic records.

The rotation of the outer core would create ordinary magnetic field after the expansion. Before that
various ions from solar wind would have entered to the dark flux tubes and entered to the interior of
Mars. Same would have happened also in Earth and would explain how oxygen atmosphere emerged
in Cambrian explosion and life could burst safely to the surface of Mars.

4. Intriguingly, Mars has its own version of Northern lights (see http://tinyurl.com/y5z7jlkb).
Without magnetic field auroras should not exist! Could it be that they are dark auroras associated
with dark magnetic field of Mars. In reconnections of the magnetic field o Martian magnetic field
and those associated with solar wind dark ions would transform to ordinary ones and create Norther
and Souther lights. Van Allen belts are in the height range .6-58 Mm (Earth radius is 6,4 Mm).
Mars should have dark van Allen belts along which ions of solar wind would end down to the interior
of Mars.

5. What about the pulsed oscillations of Martian magnetic field at frequency around 10 ms, which
corresponds to a period of 3.33... minutes detected at the night-side of Mars?

The pulsations could correspond to a biorhythm. Also Earth’s magnetic field has pulsations with
frequencies varying between 1 mHz and 1 Hz. 1 mHz corresponds to 3/3.6 minutes and 1 Hz to
average DNA cyclotron frequency in endogenous magnetic field Bend = .2 Gauss identifiable as dark
magnetic field.

Could these pulsations correspond to a heartbeat or breathing of Martian magnetic Mother Gaia
- rather concrete pulsation of its magnetic body made from flux tubes and/or sheets? Why the
pulsations appear only at the dark side? Could the pressure of the solar wind prevent the pulsations
at the day-side?

One can wonder what the measured magnetic field is. Is it the sum of dark and ordinary part or
only ordinary part. If test particles touch all space-time sheets involved, they experience the sum of the
magnetic fields so that the usual measurements should give the sum. If it is only the ordinary part, one
would still have the problem why the field having strength near to Earth’s magnetic field is not visible as
van Allen belts for instance. The QFT limit of TGD indeed corresponds to the replacement of space-times
sheets with single region of Minkowski space and the identification of fields as the sums of the induced
fields from various space-time sheets.

2.3 Intraplanetary life

The new observations allow to make the existing model for intra-planetary life much more details. The
following applies to both Earth and Mars.

1. At Earth the multicellular life forms would have emerged in Cambrian explosion suddenly from the
Earth interior as its size increased by factor 2. The expansion would be one stepwise cosmic expan-
sion and associated with the decrease of length scale dependent cosmological constant associated
with Earth. Same should happen in Mars sooner or later. So that there is no reason to worry. If
we destroy our species and many other at the same time, intelligent life forms will develop in Mars.

2. If the multicellular life forms represented intra-terrestrial life, photosynthesis and even oxygen based
life should have evolved in underground ocean. The breathing animals would be like fishes using
the oxygen in water.

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3. The dark magnetic flux tubes of planet would served as channels for solar photons propagating as
dark photons to the ocean in the interior of the planet. Dark photons would have transformed to
ordinary photons (that is bio-photons) and used in photosynthesis making possible chemical energy
storage. Photosynthesis would have produced oxygen O2, which would not have been lost to outer
space now: a good reason for intra-planetary life when oxygen atmosphere is missing.

Thus breathing animals would have become possible besides plants like organisms performing the
photosynthesis. Also animal-plants doing photosynthesis themselves can be considered. Even we
could use the metabolic energy stored chemically in manner analogous to photosynthesis. The
machinery is very similar and there is evidence that even humans can use sunlight as metabolic
energy. Pollack effect [4] would be key element here. Pollack effect generates charge separation and
thus voltage and this gives rise to a battery.

References

[1] Chi PJ et al. InSight Observations of Magnetic Pulsations on Martian Surface: Initial Findings and
Implications.

[2] Pitkänen M. Evolution in Many-Sheeted Space-Time. In Genes and Memes. Online book. Available
at: http://www.tgdtheory.fi/tgdhtml/genememe.html#prebio, 2006.

[3] Pitkänen M. Quantum gravity, dark matter, and prebiotic evolution. In Genes and Memes. Online
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	Introduction
	TGD based model for the findings and for intra-martial life
	Connection with the model of Expanding Earth
	There is something weird in the magnetic field of Mars
	Intraplanetary life


