It requires surmounting the awesome of challenge of
Google Goldilocks
Search for Porridge
Copy-paste " neither too hot nor too cold, but just right"
Or learning basic English before wasting time on YA.
It is where you're most likely to find planets with liquid water. That doesn't mean that planets in this zone will have liquid water, nor that moons, for example, outside the zone won't have it. It's just the easiest place to look for earthlike life from a distance of light-years. We still don't know for sure about life on Mars or Europa, places that it is at least possible to get data from surface probes, whereas we'd be able to tell Earth has life (due to water and oxygen signatures from the atmosphere) from 50 light-years away with present technology.
It has had an effect on Mars and Venus. Venus is outside the zone and too close to the sun, water boils. And Mars is outside the zone, "too far away", so water freezes. If Earth didn't have a magnetic field it probably would be a desert planet.
There is no Law of Nature.
>>For example, we are hardly likely to find anything close to living organism if we look away from what you call the "goldilocks zone", are we?<<
Liquid water is more important - which makes Jupiter's moon Europa one of the most likely places in the solar system where life might have emerged.
Not only the is goldilock zone is important, but also the size/mass of a planet, it's speed of rotation, whether it's axis is at an angle, all are important, but considering how many suns there are and how many planets probably rotate about them, it almost certain mathematically that there are many planets like earth out there, and anyway it is possible that life can evolve, in places that are totally unlike earth as perhaps moons warmed by gravitational forces, or life that could live in liquid methane instead of water, we just don't know.
The goldilocks zone is our best guess at finding the only stuff we are capable of imagining what life might be.
Human arrogance continually astounds me.
Why do my fellow humans think life has to be something our puny little ape brains can comprehend?
When it comes down to it, at this moment we can only perceive life in a certain way... AND WE'RE FREAKIN' MONKEYS!
How much do you think some idiot monkey can understand about the full story of the universe?
Yea, so we can split atoms... we sure don't know how to fix things when we screw it up, eh?
Mars lost it's atmosphere because it is so small and it's molten core "froze", thus not making a magnetic field that would deflect the solar winds. Venus has too much atmosphere and is too hot for anything like we know of as life to survive.
My chair is at just the right distance from a bonfire when I sit in it- not too close and not too far away, but I wouldn't consider it alive just because it's in the sweet spot.
Venus is too close and Mars is to far from the sun. They're outside the 'zone', though Mars may have had a 'golden age' for life... someday we'll know for sure.
The Universe is a very big place.
Given the billions of suns and planets, it would be highly unlikely that life would not have evolved elsewhere. The laws of chemistry and molecular biology apply everywhere. No, the laws of nature does not dictate proximity.
we may still find evidence that early Mars or Venus has in fact life albeit very primitive bacteria billions of years ago.
I don't know that we will find evidence of life elsewhere in the solar system. But in an infinite universe there are infinite possibilities.
If the two nearest planets to Earth have no life existing upon them, why is it assumed there must be life anywhere else in the universe?
Doesn't the law of nature dictate that similarities only exist within close proximity? For example, we are hardly likely to find anything close to living organism if we look away from what you call the "goldilocks zone", are we?
since they are outside the zone. it would be hard to fathom that therent be planets that can support life because of how many there are.
One solar system out of billions has only one habitable planet. What makes you think there are not millions or even billions of such solar systems with at least one inhabitable planet?
We don't know about all the laws of nature. However, there are going to be people who think they do and so to prove it they come up with inane theories. Who can prove them wrong in our lifetime? I guess I am having enough trouble living to worry about things which there can be no absolute answer.
It is not assumed there is life elsewhere.
What does this have to do with global warming????I thought so!!!!!
