Monday, March 7, 2011

Panspermia! (Even if you don't care)

http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

100 or so scientists have been invited to scrutinize the findings in this paper.

If it is confirmed that there are microfossils of non-terrestrial origin in the
referenced meteorites, it greatly increases the probability that life is as
common as dirt in the universe (metaphorically speaking).

My own prejudice is that life is as fundamental to the universe (or multiverse,
megaverse or whatever) as space, time, gravity, matter and energy.

And if this prejudice should pan out, I believe that it indirectly casts doubt
on the Big Bang origin of the universe. But I feel to lazy to try and connect
*those* dots right now. Not that I have the scientific and mathematical
expertise to do so any way.

http://gg9-tto.blogspot.com/

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