Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by tome on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:31AM
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When dom96 said "there could be very many ways for life to exist" I understood that to mean there could be very many different "biological substrates" (for want of a better term), nothing to do with how the species organises itself socially. The challenge is to come up with a hypothesis for "life" that's not based on long carbon chains.
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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by saiya-jin on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:02AM
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I agree that only our imagination is the limit when discussing potential life. If matter that is not completely frozen (ie atoms stop moving) will eventually organize into some self-replication, any energy source could be enough.
It could be on the surface on active star, neutron star (someone already tackled that in sci-fi), all kinds of dwarfs, nebulas, maybe even something living off dark energy? Or black hole.
Energy means movement, and if matter/energy will eventually arrange into something 'alive', it might be enough.