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2007-03-18 14:24:16 · 11 answers · asked by lightperson 7 in Science & Mathematics Biology

And in the year 2007 on a very small planet in the middle of nowhere----we "know this" for sure, how?

2007-03-18 14:55:36 · update #1

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yes there is millions of planes and dimensions that most of us are unaware of

2007-03-18 14:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by tra 6 · 0 0

We now know that there is life without physical bodies,
this first came to light several years ago after contact to the space shuttle from another solar system, the life form has now learnt how to communicate with us through a computer,
they are helping us to develop a new fuel that produces no pollution and is 100 times more powerful than oil products,
when ready approx 2 years time, no more fossil fuel will ever be needed again, our technicians have produced a man made fuel which can run a car for 2000 miles at a cost of £20.
with no pollution, the fuel is made from the top layer of sea water.

2007-03-21 16:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

This largely turns out to be a question of definition, and with any definition we can bend the words till the original intended meaning was lost - though the process may be fun, creative and even enlightening.

Most scientific definitions of life include the requirement for the living thing to:

Move, Respire, Respond to stimuli, Grow, Reproduce, Excrete (waste) and take in nutrition.

It's hard to imagine how a bodyless entity would be able to sense things to respond to stimulus, excrete waste or take in nutrition without the intent of the definition being swapped for something like a metaphor.

A wave on the sea ... moves, grows (and subsides) can split into more than one wave when it meets the bow of a boat (which could be regarded as a stimulus). The wave gathers energy from tidal forces (though this is not the chemical process of respiration) and loses energy when it dies on the beach.

And yet we would not regard the wave as alive unless we felt poetic.

Interestingly, if the wave WAS alive we are faced with just what bit of the wave encapsulated its life: the substance it is a wave in? (The sea?) The shape of the wave? Its speed and direction? Its beauty? Does a wave have meaning without the substance it is a wave in? Maybe I should ask this as a question rather than giving it as a possible answer ....

And so the question multiplies ... taking on a life of its own ...

2007-03-20 05:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Bob UK 3 · 0 0

Really 'life' is just a way in which we can split up the world into nicley defined catergorys (i.e. alive and not alive). So it depends entirely on your interpreatation.

In regards to your question though, it's really a matter of definition again, it depends on how you define a 'physical' body... Prehaps you could have magnetic fields encasing a network of radiation, but is that not physical?

There is no way to say that there is not life of this kind, or to say that there is, which, really, is what science is all about!

But in the context of currently accepted science, then no, probably not (at the moment anyway)...

2007-03-21 16:10:44 · answer #4 · answered by Michael 1 · 0 0

I think the problem is that the concept of "alive" is a human defined one designed to fit what we already know of as alive. Therefore anything new that turns up must satisfy the criteria that went before it in order to qualify. Among those criteria are:
Able to reproduce (how without a physical body?);
Able to die (how without a physical body?);
Able to breathe (how without a physical body?);
Able to turn nutrients into energy (how without a physical body?);
Able to grow (how without a physical body?);

And so it goes on. If something were to be proven to exist which does not have a physical body, we as humans would either have to change our definition of living (as we did with worker ants which are born unable to reproduce for instance) or more likely we'd have to identify it as something other than living purely because of what the definition of living is. If this something were sentient the chances are they'd base their concept of life on what they know and we as humans may not be a part of their definition either.

Of course this is all hypothetical.

2007-03-18 22:03:53 · answer #5 · answered by khalabra 3 · 0 0

From what I understand about Physics it is not possible to have a coherent pattern of energy without a physical container and thats what life is (kind of) even the Sun which is a massive ball of energy has mass and structure. Our thoughts and nerve impluses are the energy and our bodies contain them

2007-03-18 21:38:12 · answer #6 · answered by xpatgary 4 · 0 0

Uh... what do you mean? Do you mean like a spirit or something?

Scientifically, no. Life is nothing more than a complex bag of chemicals that can replicate itself and alter the chemicals around them. It's all physical.

2007-03-18 21:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by kz 4 · 0 0

Many people think that ideas take on a life of their own and they don`t need a body. does this count.

2007-03-19 22:16:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's life Jim but not as we know it....... Keep watching the Star Trek.

2007-03-19 08:21:22 · answer #9 · answered by wolfie 2 · 0 0

No, You are watching to much Star Trek!
lol

2007-03-18 21:34:40 · answer #10 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0 0

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