Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by hndamien on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:32PM (#18456663)

I 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.

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Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by bduerst on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:13PM (#18456806)

The 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.

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Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by hndamien on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:10PM (#18463940)

The 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.

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Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by bduerst on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:01AM (#18466554)

You're misinterpreting the semantics of finite mass in this conversation about abiogenesis by taking it out of context of conversation.

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Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by hndamien on Sunday November 18, 2018 @01:05AM (#18479091)

You 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.

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