The Microbiome of the World's Oceans

The Microbiome of the World's Oceans – Part of the Earth's Etheric Sphere

A lecture by Meinhard Simon.

The world's oceans are alive with microorganisms, especially prokaryotes, single-celled organisms without a nucleus. Every thimbleful of seawater contains around one million of these microorganisms, which play a decisive or co-determining role in global element cycles. Absolutely essential to the metabolic processes of microorganisms among themselves and between them and higher organisms, and in the context of the entire biosphere, is their aqueous environment, in which they are embedded as comprehensively as no other organisms. Accordingly, it must be regarded as part of them. The meaningful context of the entirety of these inconspicuous microorganisms is therefore the world's oceans as a very essential part of the life or etheric sphere of the Earth.