(April 5, 2016 at 10:49 am)Alex K Wrote: However the mechanism in detail, it is clear that life from nonlife will not happen frequently. But remember that the MU experiment -which was designed, but designed to mimic natural processes on young planets- ran for a small fraction of a human lifespan in one small box. The visible Universe ran it for hundreds of millions of years on 10000000000000000000000 entire planets.
Yup. The universe as the biggest array processor, ever. I think where people get hung up is thinking of it in a linear fashion. "Here these pieces assembled in just this way, and went on from there to make life". But in reality it is as you stated- many planets and a long time. Figure just how big the Earth's oceans alone are, and all that sloshing at some point has to bring something together, and that's just Earth. Multiply that by the number of available planets. I personally would be astonished if we were alone in the universe, for life. Probably will never know, though.
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