AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] 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.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/m ysteries_of_the_universe/2014/02/what_if_we_ve_mis understood_our_place_in_the_universe_a_harvard_ast ronomer.html [slate.com]
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