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Abstract EANA2025-15 |
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A cosmological analogy for the emergence of life: Implications for extraterrestrial possibility
The origin of life remains one of the most profound and unresolved questions in science. It is still unknown whether life is an inevitable outcome given the right conditions, or a unique phenomenon restricted to Earth—even within the context of an infinite and eternal multiverse. In this presentation, I propose a novel analogy between the emergence of life and fundamental processes in modern cosmology. Specifically, I suggest that life originates from a complex micro-scale physiochemical landscape and, upon reaching a critical threshold, undergoes a rapid expansion analogous to cosmological inflation from a quantum fluctuation. This perspective not only offers a conceptual bridge between biology and cosmology, but also implies a greater probability for the existence of life beyond Earth by framing biogenesis as a scalable, perhaps universal, phenomenon.