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We humans have only our definition of life form. These are limited by physics and our logic. However, we can't even see the whole universe, with no scientific b
by yawaworht1978 5y ago
We humans have only our definition of life form. These are limited by physics and our logic.
However, we can't even see the whole universe, with no scientific break through, we never will.
We don't exactly know the full story of the big bang, we can't explain the very beginning.
We don't know what happens in black holes, our logic rules literally breaks down there.
I could well be that there are life forms which we couldn't even imagine, which are not limited by our known physics.
We know a little bit about space time and gravity and the elements.
Dark matter still unexplained, no universal formula for everything in sight, i have seen DNA mentioned, maybe some creatures do not need any DNA.
Too many factors are unresolved, we don't know whether there have been, are or will be totally different species.
Imagine, at one point in history, earth didn't even exist, before animals, there were only bacteria.
Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things. Humans are a more intelligent version of very common mammals.
With a couple more things gone wrong, like a flu or smarter predator animal in the past, humans might have never come to be.
I greatly appreciate scientists and people discovering and accumulating the knowledge, and I understand the scientific methods have to be followed accurately, else we diverge into pure speculation.
But limiting possible alien life to earth like planets might not be all there is.
- wuunderbar 5y ago> Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things. Nit: Isn't the estimated age of the universe 14 billion and earth 4.5 billion? I wouldn't call that nothing.
- varispeed 5y agoI used to explain to myself what was before the universe - that it simply didn't exist, just like myself didn't exist, but in fact my body is a continuation of life since its inception - like my parents knew their parents (or at very least they had a brief contact with their mothers), their parents knew their parents and so on back to something that sparked life, but that something also must have come from something. So still can't get my head around what was before the universe. I know these visualisations that show for example that something that has beginning and end can be divided infinitely, but when I picture it, this exists in some sort of space.
- tombh 5y ago> The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunnelling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe#Beyond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_univers...