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Could life evolve inside stars?
There is a highly speculative yet very interesting possibility that would allow life forms to exist within stars.
As bizarre as it may sound, the idea is theoretically sounded (although not too probable).
It is based on entities whose existence has not yet been experimentally revealed, called magnetic monopoles and cosmic strings, which could potentially form complex structures.
They are basically topological defects, which can be easily understood with analogies.
For example, consider a fur rug in which you can brush the fur to lie in different directions. If the two ends are brushed in opposite directions, then there must necessarily be a zone of non-smooth transitions between the two states in the middle, a zone that can only be moved but not eliminated.
A topological defect can also be obtained if the fur rug is brushed into a spiral, whose eye would contain a point-like non-smooth transition.
A topological defect is, therefore, a change in the grain of space that can’t be easily disentangled. This is a widely known phenomenon that occurs with the direction of the tiny poles of a magnetic…