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You just said it yourself - infinite space but finite mass. "Life" by most definitions is made of mass, not space. Claiming infinite space has infinite possib
by bduerst 8y ago
You just said it yourself - infinite space but finite mass. "Life" by most definitions is made of mass, not space.
Claiming infinite space has infinite possibilities for life is quite literally a Celestial Teapot argument.
- eloff 8y agoIs it that simple? Empty space has energy (dark energy) and E=MC^2 means energy and mass are interchangeable. Hence infinite space does imply infinite mass. Not a physicist, so I'm probably dead wrong. But I would like to be enlightened.
- bduerst 8y agoIt is that simple, unless you think dark energy is dense enough to create a single celled organism (it's not).
- hndamien 8y agoI didn't make any claim about life. I just wanted to challenge the statement about the universe being finite. I also agree with the other commenter that I'm not sure we can even be sure the mass is finite, but also happy to be enlightened.
- bduerst 8y agoThe context of this conversation is probability of generating life. Debating theories on dark energy isn't relevant since it's not dense enough to generate life.
- hndamien 8y agoThe context isn't relevant when I'm correcting a fact, at least as we/I currently understand it - the universe is infinite. I'm wasn't making a statement about dark energy, or life.
- bduerst 8y agoYou're misinterpreting the semantics of finite mass in this conversation about abiogenesis by taking it out of context of conversation.
- hndamien 8y agoYou are ignoring the spacetime part of the universe, which in definitions of the universe being finite or not, is probably far more relevant than the mass.