Are the odds better for life to exist or not to exist?

Question

If the odds are like one in a billion, would that mean that on a billion earth-like planets only one would sustain life?

Answer 1

No scientific experiment has ever succeeded in creating life from non-living matter. Mathematicians agree that the odds of a universe existing in which life can form is 1 in10 to the 10(followed by 131 more "0's")th power. They also agree that the causation of life by a supreme being is much more likely.

Another way of expressing this is that the chances that life formed in this universe without causation (by a divine creator) are smaller than the number "1" divided by the total number of atoms in existence. This is as close as science has ever come to proving the existence of a God. Not bad, eh?

Answer 2

Someone, a scientist, created an equation about this. I don't remember it exactly - but the odds are next to nothing that we are alone in the universe.

Even if those odds are one in a billion, you have to understand that there are billions of trillions - an unimaginably high number - of planets in the universe.

I'm not saying the aliens are coming and get out your tinfoil hat, of course. I'm saying that the odds approach 100% in favor of there being intelligent life in other places besides earth, although it's likely those places are so far away that we will never communicate.

Answer 3

if the Big Bang theory is correct, life shouldn't exist at all. it was greater than 1 in a billion:

if the density of space energy were different by 1 in 10 to the power of 120 and if the mass of the universe's matter differed by 1 in 10 to the power of 60, life couldn't exist. also, carbon fusing is a rare process (an unstable beryllium atom needs to fuse with a helium atom). again, earth's circular orbit is different from all the other planets in our solar system (other orbits are eliptical) so the earth isn't scorching and times and freezing at others, which would kill life. earth's distance from the sun keeps life possible as well (half an earth over we'd freeze, have an earth closer we'd fry).

and again, we're part of the 6% of the universe that is SUSPECTED to be able to support life. so we don't know the conditions of other galaxies, and whether they have earth-like planets. besides, we're the only planet known to have a ready supply of liquid water...

Answer 4

It depends what those are the odds of. If they're the odds of an earth-like planet sustaining life then yes.
Of course the chance of life existing on a planet exactly like Earth is 100%.

Answer 5

Actually a billion is a tiny percent of the likely number of
planets. There is a very good chance life exists elsewhere in the universe.

Answer 6

The odds are better for life to exist. Life was imminent at the moment of the Big Bang. Self-replicating molecules WILL self-replicate. Molecules WILL bond and react with other molecules. These things are not accidental or random. There are more than billons of planets so even if your stated odds are correct, then there would be life on other planets.

Answer 7

the prospect of life forming on a planet is surely a hundred% particular. we've data - it got here with regard to here. There are expected to be one hundred fifty billion galaxies interior the universe, each and each with an standard of 200 billion stars in it. What are the possibilities that orbiting a sort of stars is a planet (different than for our very own) the place clever life has formed? So i'm making a great gamble on the aliens.

Answer 8

We simply don't know enough yet, however the odds certainly seem to be in favor of no life. science as been unable to reproduce even simple life under the best circumstances. The drake formula proves nothing since you guess on most of the variables.

Secondly distances in the universe are vast cover to really find out.

Answer 9

I am the center of the universe .Y'all are just drops of tears from my eyes
the space aliens have been visiting for many years
Its foolish to say different
when you can fold space and time you can go anywhere in just a minute
when they look into space they see an energy, all thru out space and this energy is life energy
so life is everywhere thru out all Creation and space and ALL the universes
In a billion years we will be spread out to many 1000s worlds

Answer 10

Well, no, that's not how it works.

If you roll a die, there's a one-in-six chance it'll come up a three. Throwing it six times doesn't mean it'll come up a three. It may, and it may not. You may get a run of threes...or you may throw it 25 times and not get ONE three.

what it DOES mean is that every time you roll, there's a one-in-six chance it'll come up a three.

But...if you want to know more about the probability of life similar to ours, rent and watch the four-part series "Origins: Nova".

The reality of our cosmos is SO MUCH more awe-inspiring and wonderful than any creation story any civilization has invented, or any holy book espoused.

Actually, you can watch the most astonishing episode on line here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/

On the right side of the page, under "RESOURCES" you'll see a button that says "WATCH ONLINE"