/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10176207
Pure math was a weird major compared to everything else I took. I liked application (literally all other stem classes) better than proving that math can be applied. If you ever need someone to prove that we can apply calculus, hit me up. If you need me to apply calculus to real world problems... I wasn't really trained for that.

That said, the benefits of pure math to your mathematical intuition and reasoning are the bees' knees. It's a great foundation for anything STEM.

>>9125087
You too. You forgot to say faggot though.

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>>8912597
The question is, given the existence of these relevant materials on a planet in necessary quantities, is the step from no single cell organisms to single cell organisms something that can occur on other planets? That is to ask, is there some reason that the step from no single cell organisms to single cell organisms is unique to our planet?

I don't think there is any reason to think that that step is unique to our giant spaceball. If it was unique, then there is a 0% chance of other carbon based life.

Now, more importantly, suppose that step is not unique. Now there are two more cases. Suppose the universe is infinite. Then there are an infinite number of planets exactly like ours because every arrangement of matter occurs an infinite number of times. In fact, there are an infinite number of me and an infinite subset of them can actually grow a full beard.

Now the alternative, the universe is finite and the appearance of single cell organisms is nonzero. Since we can only see a finite amount of space, it seems irresponsible to assume that such a mind-boggling quantity of space such as infinite space exists. And even if there was infinite space, it's looking like FTL travel is only going to be a thing in mass effect. So we're probably only really interested in the space that we can see anyways. So now we're back at the main question I think. But, we don't know what conditions are necessary for the step from no single cell organisms to some exist. Without knowing that and the number of planets that satisfy our other prerequisites, it's pretty hard to come up with a concrete estimate, let alone the actual probability.