An exobiologist view: Life Can Exist Outside the Universe. Do you believe this?

Question

There's no current information over whether Mars actually contains life or pre-existing simple organisms, but there does seem to be a strong consensus within the science community over the possibility of life outside this planet. To date, in Mars we've only found pictures of supposed 'ravines' where water might've flowed over a year or so before eroding the valley (once believed to be left perfect in the absence of sandstorms)

From explanations such as the quantum mechanics which concerns itself over the quanta properties of small participles, life cannot possibly exist. How life developed on this planet is not just hard to understand but beyond comprehension. How did matter and space come into the picture?

Answer 1

Can you explain what you mean by quantum mechanics showing that 'life cannot possibly exist'? To my knowledge, there is no quantum mechanics research that suggests this.

Also, even if there is not life on Mars, or in our solar system, or even the Milky Way galaxy, there are still billions upon billions of other galaxies, other solar systems, other planets. What this amounts to is an incredible number of possibilities for the development of life. It is unthinkable to most scientists, that somewhere, in the giant, vast universe, that there is not some other instance of life. No, we have never found it, but what we have searched is less than a drop of water in the ocean. Probability and statistics weigh on the side of the exobiologist.

Answer 2

Mars is just one very, very tiny part of the universe so if no evidence of life is found there it doesn't mean much for the rest of the universe.

I gather you are a skeptic about anything on Mars, however, since you talk about supposed "ravines", when there is good evidence of actual ravines caused by liquid run-off.

Quantum mechanics doesn't preclude life. After all, we are living here on earth in the midst of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics and all it represents is not yet fully understood, but not fully understood doesn't mean how life developed on this planet is beyond comprehension. The very essence of science is to continually search for answers to things that we don't yet comprehend.

Remember, in the overall scheme of time, it is only in a blink of an eye since people have understood that the world is not flat and that the sun is not a god's chariot flying through the sky every day.

We still have a lot to learn.

Answer 3

When did quantum mechanics preclude life? I think you are confused about the explanation of the very small having an effect of the large; in this case life. Life's development may be a mystery, but it is not beyond comprehension.
As far as other life elsewhere; I will wait for the evidence.

Answer 4

When you're asking about life "outside the universe," you're really asking about extraterrestrial life, right?

It's said that Enrico Fermi felt that if life had occurred elsewhere in the universe, we would already know about it (he is reported to have asked, "Where is everybody?")--but there's no reason to believe that other life forms, if they exist, would necessarily flock HERE. In the absence of contradictory claims (speak up, everyone who disagrees!), I think you will find that most scientists are reserving judgement about the presence of life elsewhere. There is no reason to believe it doesn't exist, but we certainly haven't found it yet.