I agree. I won't be a bit surprised to see life in several places within this planetary system. Also, won't be surprised if none is found. It doesn't have to be found locally to be massively abundant in the galaxy or OU (observable universe). (I mean we have one major outbreak in our system already.) (And life existing on chemical energy, besides sunlight.) (Did you say Jupiter?)
I like your attitude. And don't see why we need to be the only place, for people to be okay about it here. Where the heck does that idea come from?
In the Inflationary Model of this time and space, the Universe is something like 1x10 to the 110th times bigger than this c.20 billion light year wide space we inhabit. Space and matter are way, way, way, way X 110 times bigger than we see past the non edges of light's travel to us.
Somewhere, trillions of trillions of trillions of somewheres, out there, life exists, as we speak, in abundance.
With a "Universe" only 10 billion years old and 20 billion light years "across" and containing only 10x43rd stars, I suppose it's still easy for us to imagine it created for "Us", earthlings, alone.
In the inflationary mathematics, you can fill this observable universe with grains of sand, blow each up to the size of the observable universe, fill that again with sand, and blow them up again, expand each of those grains to our universe, and still not approach the size of "space." (Inflationary model fits the residue of the Big Bang better than an expanding ball from a "local" point theory. Local being contained within the horizon of time and light.)
Chances of being "alone" in there?
The universe does approach infinity. A still amazing concept.
And remember, the observable universe is really as big as our imagination can grasp this Inflationary one. We're not very good "graspers." But it's fun to try.
God has a damn big backyard.
One we'll never see or talk to. |
