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Turns Out the Truth Might Not Be Out There
Other | Tuesday 9th December 2014 | Edmund
According to a recent peer-reviewed study titled Physical Review Letters, chiefly written by the astrophysicist Tsvi Piran, one of the leading theorists in cosmic gamma-ray origins, there is evidence to suggest that the majority of the universe is a cold, barren, lifeless wasteland.
Predicated on the idea that throughout the Milky Way and universe at large planets are repeatedly barraged with ozone layer-stripping gamma radiation bombardments (GRB’s), Piran suggests that the only solar systems viable for sustaining life are the most outlying ones, like our own.
Piran and colleagues suggest that, owing to a more compact universe, earlier on in its lifetime life on most planets would have been impossible because the frequency of GRB’s, and it is through the constant expansion of the universe that survivability is more viable.
Whatever the case, it is likely that any extraterrestrial life encountered will have come to similarly located planets as our own, right on the edges of the galaxy.
