I said indirectly, so if you're going to quote me don't only quote the parts that feed your take on things. > I am explicitly disagreeing that gravity is requi

I said indirectly, so if you're going to quote me don't only quote the parts that feed your take on things. > I am explicitly disagreeing that gravity is required for such reactions A dependency is very different from a requirement. You can have one without the other. But a system's growth being influenced by an outside system explicitly means that the system's current structure is dependent on that outside system; in the sense that if the outside system were never present, the internal system would be structured differently if it existed at all. And that is only talking about direct influence. > Furthermore, I should point out that our experience that life can survive quite well outside of the normal gravitational field is itself sufficient disproof of your proposition You are straying sooooo far from my original post, can we reel it in a little bit?