Do you think scientists will ever discover another planet in the universe that is similar to earth?

Answer 1

Yes...if we live long enough.

Answer 2

Depends what you mean by 'similar'. I looked at Nasa's top 100 candidates and very few were much like Earth.

But it is a big universe. A good possibility if is a planet turns out to be like Earth, it might have life on it.

But there is that similarity thing. A ball of rock 8000mi in diameter, vulcanism, toxic gases and liquids (like Earth 4 billion years ago) with a similar sun and similar orbit... would be both very much like Earth and yet very different as well. A huge amount of what makes Earth what is is - is billions of years of living things modifying the atmosphere, oceans and surface.

Answer 3

I think in the realm of the trillions of galaxies that are out there, each galaxy on the average containing 100 billion suns, there is a huge amount of life in the universe, of types we couldn't imagine in our wildest dreams. Unfortunately, unless we can build spacecraft that can travel at relativistic speeds (ideally .9999999 percent the speed of light), the best we can do is explore our own solar system. We have detected large planets (similar to our Jupiter) about 100 light years out, I think. Anything smaller we are not presently technologically able to detect it, but that doesn't mean there aren't rocky planets in that solar system. But 100 light years, well, that's 600 trillion miles. I know "trillion" is just a word, but it's the same as a million billons. That's a lot of billions of miles, and a long drive. To answer your question, we may be able to "discover" such a planet, but we'd never get there.

Answer 4

Please visit and read http://www.thunderbolts.info and http://www.plasmacosmology.net and keep an open mind about the nature of the universe. These sites includes news and views from plasma physicists and electrical engineers who study plasmas in the lab day in and out and understand what's going on in space (which it's generally agreed is 90%+ plasma, but somehow astronomers and astrophysiscists seem to acknowledge magnetism in space but try to divorce it from electricity even though everyone basically knows that the two forces are indivisible and where one exists, the other MUST by nature exist as well).

If we accept the plasma/electric universe scenario, then yes, I absolutely believe that we can and WILL find evidence of other similar systems to our own.

Electromagnetic systems in plasma are self-arranging systems and behave in the same basic ways in all frames of reference on all scales. So, yes, I believe that the forces that shaped our portion of the universe are fundamental and will have shaped other portions of the universe in exactly the same way, perhaps not with exactly the same outcome... But yes, I believe that the same process acting on an extremely similarly laid out system will produce much the same results. I believe it is extremely likely. Despite what the Christian fundamentalists and the relativists say (relativity general and special don't make sense and don't usefully predict real observed phenomena so "scientists" have to keep inventing newer more exotic things to try to prop up the system that has failed to explain or make useful predictions about the universe).

More reading:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/birkeland
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/birkeland+currents
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/plasma+cosmology
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Alfven
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/electric+universe+concept
http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm
http://www.anpheon.org

Answer 5

For ever Star that exists that there is a solar system with it's share of planets and moons and astereoids and comets. Since there are so many undiscovered planets there is a big possibility of there being planets like earth out there.

Answer 6

There should be distinct planest in the universe, yet try to be particular that you gained't locate plants jointly with those that developed the following. The plants on earth are a effect of billions of years of evolution on earth with its unique geological and organic and organic historic previous. life varieties on the different planet may have developed less than diverse geological and organic and organic situations, so that they ought to not be envisioned to resemble those chanced on in the international.

Answer 7

yea for sure. eventually we are all going to have to move to an earth like planet when the sun dies. Its pretty unlikly that earth is the only planet in the entire universe that harbours life.

Answer 8

It is a big universe, REALLY big, so I would be surprised if there were no other planets similar to Earth.

Answer 9

In Genesis, first chapter of the Bible it says GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND THEN HE CREATED LIFE ON EARTH. It does not say he created life in the heavens too only on earth We are wasting our time looking for life in space. I have watched shows on UFO's and what people say they have seen. I have also watched on the History channel showing declassified film footage of prototype and experimental planes that we and other countries have tried out and you'd be surprised at the similarity in the descriptions of UFO's and these prototypes

Answer 10

Someday they will. Weather or not if it happens in our lifetime is yet another question. I think that there are tooooo many stars for not one to have a planet close to what Earth is.

Answer 11

yes i am sure they will surely find out
if they do not then i will do it
cause my goal is to become an astronaut and i will be
and the sci have founded a planet (recentely)
but it is not like earth
the r still on that expedition
and yes if u want more info
then i will give u cause i love reding books on space