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Is The Universe Alive?
- Thread starter Salty Booger
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No. You would have to redefine the word alive to fit the entire universe.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Would Life exi
Would Life exist without the Universe?
Not that I know of, but that doesn't make the entire universe alive.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
How can Life exist in something that's not alive? From where does life originate?
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Best guess?
In a sense, especially when one thinks beyond the dry, literal meaning of "alive." That which is alive is dynamic - full of change and drama, creation and destruction, constantly in motion, ever changing and transforming. The universe is certainly that.
Possibly here:
File:Champagne vent white smokers.jpg - Wikipedia
Its a geothermal vent in the ocean.
Brian2
Veteran Member
Life is that special thing that has been found nowhere else but here on earth.
The most that has been found elsewhere is the right elements to make bodies from. No life in that.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Cooky
Veteran Member
Maybe.
Cooky
Veteran Member
It's not so easy to know... How do we know there aren't galaxies inside individual atoms, with little planets and little tiny people, who are actually living as part of a cell of an animal.
Likewise, how do we know we're not just like those tiny people on a different scale..?
"physicists now know that atoms are not solid little balls. It’s better to think of them as tiny electrical, “planetary” systems. They’re typically made up of three main parts: protons, neutrons and electrons. Think of the protons and neutrons as together forming a “sun”, or nucleus, at the centre of the system. The electrons orbit this nucleus, like planets."
How do we know that things are really made of atoms?
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ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Quantum mechanics.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Defining life isn't at all easy. However, I know of no proposed definition that would make the universe alive (at least according to the evidence we have to date).
Cooky
Veteran Member
How does Quantum mechanics know there aren't tiny people living in proton galaxies, within an atom?
...What if the protons themselves are a little universe?
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
The laws of physics are very different at that scale.
Protons are made up of three quarks.
Cooky
Veteran Member
If by “alive” you mean animate, not dead, and ever-changing, then yes, it is alive.
