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Life On Earth Might Not Be So Special After All

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-life-Jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"What If We Have Completely Misunderstood Our Place in the Universe ? A Harvard astronomer has a provocative hunch about what happened after the Big Bang. Our universe is about 13 billion years old, and for roughly 3.5 billion of those years, life has been wriggling all over our planet. But what was going on in the universe before that time ? It's possible that there was a period shortly after the Big Bang when the entire universe was teeming with life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb calls this period the 'habitable epoch,' and he believes that its existence changes how humans should understand our place in the cosmos. The full article is here"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by sjames on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:52PM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:52PM (#9894)

    I had the same thought. It seems to me that the process that would produce carbon for life happened later. The bit about water was questionable as well.