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Hi,
My attention was jerked back to the screen on this when Prof Cox remarked that from a physics standpoint, it may be that life of some kind is inevitable in the right conditions, like ours.
Fascinating I thought, must find out much more about that. I have not long read "The Eerie Silence" by Prof Paul Davies, in which he presents an argument (not the only conclusion presented tho) that life appears to be the result of such a long chain of very unlikely accidents, or coincidences, that we could well be the only intelligent life in the cosmos. Wow.
The truth is somewhere in the middle? What exactly is life, as well? If it only needs to be defined as the organised result of a proton gradient, how long is the list?
Any suggestions for the reading list?
Cheers
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