I often think about how life formed in this solar system at its very beginning. The seemingly random chance the right elements came together to form amino acids, which collected to form strands of rudimentary dna, making the first extremophile single cell organisms. Elenents colliding and making a machine that eats, and multiplies, and evolves. I often consider how impossible it all should have been, should be, that a universe of inanimate elements could somehow forge self aware, self actualizing life. How is it even possible that elements can be arranged just so to make something that replicates on its own on purpose? That thinks and ponders the universe and its own existence? Then i wonder about other solar systems, other galaxies, how they may have life that formed out of different elements, like silicon based dna strands making, essentially living rocks. Scientists have considered how silicon can stand in seemingly for carbon in dna chains, its not strictly impossible. And if there is life elsewhere, did they form sooner? Evolve faster? Or are they just now forming, barely out of the primordial ooze? Then i wonder about antimatter, its just like matter, but it carries an opposite charge, but otherwise an anti-version of all of our elements exist, meaning anti-organisms could exist, and it makes me wonder how being made of antimatter would affect them if at all. Would the inverse charge make them think differently? Would it make them evolve faster or slower? Would it result in mutations or more radical evolution? Or would they be exactly like us, but not?
These thoughts are often why i cant take an athiestic view of existence, too many seeming coincidences of our origin and existence, too much design that feels intelligent, deliberate.
Far as we know, being made of antimatter wouldn't really affect them much, as physics doesn't seem to draw a distinction between matter and antimatter. That said, the cosmic imbalance between the two, with matter being more common than antimatter, is one of the biggest "wonder why that is" things in physics!
If there were, say, antimatter galaxies to balance out matter ones, we would be able to detect their opposite charge via astronomy, so the fact that there aren't antimatter galaxies is weird!
