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I had a thought about mathematical probabilities this morning. If we counted every grain of sand on the sea shores of every ocean on earth and calculated the odds of another planet with all the life forces of earth forming from just one of those grains of sand, would it ever happen? Could it ever happen? What if we gave it a lot of time? Just because we can develop calculations from such a large base doesn't mean it is ever going to happen.

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I dont believe in the big bang idea .That said I do believe that human knowledge of physics and cosmology will always increase , no matter what the arrangement movement and detectability of galaxies .I believe there are more ways to discovery than our present cosmology .There will be more new and counter intuitive models proposed ,some of which will reveal astounding new understandings .A look at past science shows certain such points of innovation around the examples of the works ofCopernicus , Newton , Einstein , past and current quantum physicists and cosmologists .My personal hunch is that the elctromagnetic spectrum will be understood as a loop rather than an open continuum ,and that there are , will be , and also there were , intelligent beings in many and varied stellar habitats .The wonder of life on this planet , the awareness of it and the inherent wish to explore and understand ,is to me a signature of the intrinsic nature of the universe .

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