Does Einstein's Theory of Relativity Suggestively Prove Life, Other Than Human Life, Exists?
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I believe it's MU.
More likely an analog interface.
There are trillions of planets in the Universe. Possibly a hundred trillion. The Universe is Huge. Much like the Earth was one time where the continents were closer together and life on Earth interacted at a much easier rate the Universe drifted apart. Planets like Earth would have resided in a local section of space and then spread out over space much like the continents of Earth drifted apart carrying the life on each continent and thus necessitating the need for evolved and sentient thought to take place to re-establish contact. The Universe is the same way. Our sun is younger by nearly two billion years than the Proxima Centauri sun. This means while Promixa Centauri was still young the components of life in the Universe were still traveling through the Universe and our own Sun had not even come into being yet.
I am not sure I get your point.
If Proxima Centauri is older than our own sun and is only 4.1 light years from Earth then the process that created our sun, maybe an explosion due to matter colliding or Big Bang ejecta passing through the region would have passed close to Proxima Centauri meaning that a ring of expanding matter supporting life was present between the time our Sun was formed and when Proxima Centauri was around 2 billion years old.
I don't think so. All elements, except for hydrogen and Helium, are cooked inside stars and then ejected when the stars go nova. So there must have been at least one generation of stars preceding ours. It could be more than one though.
It still doesn't explain the fact that our own sun is younger than Proxima Centauri and supports life on Earth.
Our sun is 4.6 billion years old.
Proxima Centauri is 4.85 billion years old.
That is a difference of a smaller sun, Proxima Centauri, being older than our Sun which is larger by 285 million years.
The universe was still forming after Proxima Centauri had formed. Its obvious something was taking place that caused our Sun to be born 4.6 billion years ago because our Sun didn't magically poof out of space so there had to be chemical and energetic reactions taking place within this region (Sol to Proxima Centauri) that created our Sun as well as life on Earth. Chemical and energetic reactions that were only 4.2 light years from the Proxima Centauri solar system. Reactions that could have found their way to Proxima Centauri b.
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Alpha Centauri A , B, and Proxima all have large proper motions, were much more distant from the Sun only a few hundred thousand years ago and weren't born in the same stellar nursery as the Sun. They will effectively disappear into the background of Milky Way stars as seen from Earth in a similar amount of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri#Distance_and_motion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri#Distance_and_motion
Sometimes two galaxies crash into one another (in a manner of speaking since the stars are so distant from one another that only a very few if any stars ever crash into one another) and in that case two neighboring stars can even belong to two different galaxies, IE they're not even revolving around the same galactic center.
None of the stars in the Sun's immediate vicinity are believed to have come from the same stellar nursery (open cluster) as the Sun. A candidate sibling star is HD 162826, which is 110 ly distant.
http://www.space.com/25881-sun-sister-star-found-hd162826.html
It is believed that the Galaxy merged with several smaller galaxies in the past and this isn't an uncommon event in the development of galaxies.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ph...ilky-way-a-collision-of-two-galaxies-beginner
http://www.space.com/25881-sun-sister-star-found-hd162826.html
It is believed that the Galaxy merged with several smaller galaxies in the past and this isn't an uncommon event in the development of galaxies.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ph...ilky-way-a-collision-of-two-galaxies-beginner
Yes, that's pretty much the info. that I had.
Another interesting question to ponder is this.
Does life at the speed of light simply go into a form of stasis? I thought about light speed and effects on the human body a body a few days ago. If a human body is not able to withstand the immense pressure traveling at light speed and dies the human body should be preserved because normal decay would not take place because the bacteria would also not be able to function as well thus putting the body into a state of hyper-suspended stasis. Would the human body, once it is returned to normal velocity that a shuttle or Apollo mission would encounter, would the body return to a living state seeing as how decay did not take place and all of the functions of the body would be exactly the same as when it went into hyper-suspended stasis?
What about spreading the seed of life in the Universe? Is the reason why life is present in the Universe because life itself reduced its velocity to a lower than light speed velocity that allowed molecular interactions and changes to take place?
Does life at the speed of light simply go into a form of stasis? I thought about light speed and effects on the human body a body a few days ago. If a human body is not able to withstand the immense pressure traveling at light speed and dies the human body should be preserved because normal decay would not take place because the bacteria would also not be able to function as well thus putting the body into a state of hyper-suspended stasis. Would the human body, once it is returned to normal velocity that a shuttle or Apollo mission would encounter, would the body return to a living state seeing as how decay did not take place and all of the functions of the body would be exactly the same as when it went into hyper-suspended stasis?
What about spreading the seed of life in the Universe? Is the reason why life is present in the Universe because life itself reduced its velocity to a lower than light speed velocity that allowed molecular interactions and changes to take place?
The answer to that is simple: Nothing of a mass superior to zero can go at the speed of light. It's a physical impossibility.
The widely accepted theory is that it is not possible to go faster than light speed due to tachyon condensation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_field
The Higgs field is what gives our constituent quarks and electrons their inertial masses and prevents them taking off a the speed of light in every direction destroying us in the process. It therefore also allows us to experience time. Why we experience time in only one direction that is coincident with increasing entropy is an unsolved problem. Being unable to solve it drove Ludwig Boltzmann to suicide.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150309-why-does-time-only-run-forwards
Some recent research points toward quantum entanglement as a way to unify quantum theory and General Relativity.
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_field
The Higgs field is what gives our constituent quarks and electrons their inertial masses and prevents them taking off a the speed of light in every direction destroying us in the process. It therefore also allows us to experience time. Why we experience time in only one direction that is coincident with increasing entropy is an unsolved problem. Being unable to solve it drove Ludwig Boltzmann to suicide.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150309-why-does-time-only-run-forwards
Some recent research points toward quantum entanglement as a way to unify quantum theory and General Relativity.
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797
Based on physics within an environment that has gravity generated by celestial bodies, black holes and planets. But what about the void of space where the same material comprising all of the celestial bodies is present but is not in the form of celestial bodies? Would gravity still exist?
Some bacteria, lichens (Xanthoria elegans, Rhizocarpon geographicum and their mycobiont cultures, the black Antarctic microfungi Cryomyces minteri and Cryomyces antarcticus), spores, and even one animal (tardigrades) were found to have survived the harsh outer space environment and cosmic radiation.
So at least one animal the tardigrade is able to survive the harsh out space environment.
