AnonTechie writes:
"What If We Have Completely Misunderstood Our Place in the Universe ? A Harvard astronomer has a provocative hunch about what happened after the Big Bang. Our universe is about 13 billion years old, and for roughly 3.5 billion of those years, life has been wriggling all over our planet. But what was going on in the universe before that time ? It's possible that there was a period shortly after the Big Bang when the entire universe was teeming with life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb calls this period the 'habitable epoch,' and he believes that its existence changes how humans should understand our place in the cosmos. The full article is here"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @03:24AM
That is only true if the world is floating around in the uniform, high background temperature, but you're never anywhere close to an equilibrium state as you mentioned two paragraphs above. You have a nice, hot star pumping energy into the system.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @04:09AM