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What If We Were Silicon-Based Life Forms?

Carbon and silicon have remarkably similar properties — here’s why life on earth is carbon-based

Sharika Hafeez
The Startup
Published in
3 min readJan 26, 2020

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The idea of parallel universes, time travel, intergalactic cruises and extraterrestrials have been in the curious minds of many scientific experts, and yet they haven’t gone beyond the scope of science fiction. So has the concept of…

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Sharika Hafeez
The Startup

Writer. Physics student. Under the inky-black sky, with a steaming cup of chai in my hands, I watch the stars and I write.