{"id":28830,"date":"2016-08-11T02:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-laws-of-nature-make-life-on-other-planets-inevitable-according-to-this-groundbreaking-theory"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:26:10","slug":"the-laws-of-nature-make-life-on-other-planets-inevitable-according-to-this-groundbreaking-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-laws-of-nature-make-life-on-other-planets-inevitable-according-to-this-groundbreaking-theory","title":{"rendered":"The laws of nature make life on other planets inevitable \u2014 according to this groundbreaking theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-laws-of-nature-make-life-on-other-planets-inevitable-according-to-this-groundbreaking-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to theoretical physicist and super-genius Stephen Hawking, \u201cThe human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.\u201d Indeed, to most modern scientists we are nothing more than an entirely random \u2018happy accident\u2019 that likely would not occur if we were to rewind the tape of the universe and play it again. But what if that is completely wrong? What if life is not simply a statistical anomaly, but instead an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and chemistry?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-new-physics-theory-of-life\/\">new theory<\/a> of the origin of life, based firmly on well-defined physics principles, provides hefty support for the notion that biological life is a \u201ccosmic imperative\u201d. In other words, organic life <em>had<\/em> to eventually emerge. If such a theory were true, it would mean that it is very likely that life is widespread throughout the universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/02\/the-laws-of-nature-make-life-on-other-planets-inevitable-according-to-this-groundbreaking-theory\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/02\/the-laws-of-nature-make-life...ng-theory\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to theoretical physicist and super-genius Stephen Hawking, \u201cThe human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.\u201d Indeed, to most modern scientists we are nothing more than an entirely random \u2018happy accident\u2019 that likely would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,3,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66620,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28830\/revisions\/66620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}