(January 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm)Beccs Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm)AAA Wrote: Who cares if we found planets outside the solar system. It is fine tuning of the universe, not fine tuning of the solar system.
You should read the book The Privelaged Planet, or watch the documentary, which describes how rare the conditions that permit life. Obviously rare and highly unlikely arguments aren't always good, but it's still interesting.
Here's a couple articles about the cosmological constant.
- [Susskind2005] Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005.
- http://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/physics/cosmo-constant.php
You mentioned planet formation is incredibly unlikely. I pointed out that it seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
Now we're moving the goalposts to life on other worlds.
We have discovered life on ONE planet, and that's likely because we've only explored ONE planet.
With all of our probes on Mars we've barely scratched the surface (pun intended) of that planet.
When they talk og the "goldilocks zone" where life is possible, they generally mean life as we know it.
Who knows what other forms life may take in the universe. It will not be human and some may not be carbon based.
As an aside, we HAVE discovered the building blocks of life on meteors that are billions of years old.
No, I think you're misunderstanding the point about planet formation. If the universe were different, then planets would not form (earlier articles). The universe is the way it is, which allows planets to form.