h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That is absolutly right for me too.Only one little thing,the whole analysis is based on a supposition...For me,believing in infinity is a bit like believing in "God".I don't know about any paramater that is actually infinite either on earth or in space (unless your imagination maybe and I don't see why the universe ,only, would be of an infinite space...I believe that infinity is just the result of the human imagination...

Of course it's also been said " If you put 10,000 monkeys in a big room with 10,000 typewritters, eventually, you'll have a big room full of dead monkeys.". My point is that sometimes what must be considered is 'what is most likely?' Given an infinite amount of matter in an infinite amount of space does not guarantee that an infinite number of things will happen. However, I admire the way you've chosen to tackle such a BIG subject. Such attempt to wrap the human mind around infinity tells me you think in 3D, so far beyond the 2D world of so many of our compatriots. Great post.

Our understanding of the universe -

9-Jul-2002 An analysis of 13.5 thousand million-year-old X-rays, captured by ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, has shown that either the Universe may be older than astronomers had thought or that mysterious, undiscovered 'iron factories' litter the early Universe.

http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=30255

There is much we do not know and the more we find, the more questions we have to answer.

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