door p__ » vr 09 sep 2005, 19:34
Nieuwsbericht van gisteren:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/sto...1564973,00.html
Hierin wordt gezegd dat ze bij NASA momenteel een experiment aan het uitvoeren zijn dat kan bewijzen dat multiple genesis op aarde heeft plaatsgevonden, en dat het leven dus niet het resultaat is van een oneindige kleine kans:
This is undeniably a long-shot, but a positive result would be a stupendous discovery, with the potential to confirm the cosmic imperative hypothesis. If it is true that life has arisen more than once on Earth, it is likely to have emerged on Earth-like bodies all across the galaxy and beyond. So without even leaving our home planet, we would have the answer the biggest of the big questions of existence: are we alone?
Het "cosmic imperative" is:
Because even the simplest living cell is immensely complex, the odds of such a thing forming by chance are virtu ally zero. If that's the way it happened, then life is a freak phenomenon, and we will almost certainly be alone in the universe. However, the search for life beyond Earth, which underpins the burgeoning field of astrobiology, is based on a belief that chance played only a subordinate role. Instead, some sort of "life principle" is envisaged to be at work in the universe, coaxing matter along the road to life against the raw odds.
The Nobel prize-winning biologist Christian de Duve has dubbed the life principle "a cosmic imperative".
Nieuwsbericht van gisteren:
[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1564973,00.html]http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/sto...1564973,00.html[/url]
Hierin wordt gezegd dat ze bij NASA momenteel een experiment aan het uitvoeren zijn dat kan bewijzen dat multiple genesis op aarde heeft plaatsgevonden, en dat het leven dus niet het resultaat is van een oneindige kleine kans:
[quote]This is undeniably a long-shot, but a positive result would be a stupendous discovery, with the potential to confirm the [b]cosmic imperative[/b] hypothesis. If it is true that life has arisen more than once on Earth, it is likely to have emerged on Earth-like bodies all across the galaxy and beyond. [b]So without even leaving our home planet, we would have the answer the biggest of the big questions of existence: are we alone?[/b][/quote]
Het "cosmic imperative" is:
[quote]Because even the simplest living cell is immensely complex, the odds of such a thing forming by chance are virtu ally zero. If that's the way it happened, then life is a freak phenomenon, and we will almost certainly be alone in the universe. However, the search for life beyond Earth, which underpins the burgeoning field of astrobiology, is based on a belief that chance played only a subordinate role. Instead, some sort of "[b]life principle[/b]" is envisaged to be at work in the universe, coaxing matter along the road to life against the raw odds.
The Nobel prize-winning biologist Christian de Duve has dubbed the life principle "a cosmic imperative".[/quote]
