Based on the panspermic or cosmozoic theory, a team of astrophysicists from Harvard University (USA) has proposed in their latest research that it would be possible to find life distributed throughout the universe as part of small easily located oases. .
are we alone in the universe? This question has been in the mind of the human being since time immemorial. If it were not so and we accepted the theory of panspermia as plausible, how could we find those other places alive?
According to the scientists, this expansion of life would follow a simple and recognizable pattern for us , something like an oasis footprint of spatial life dotting the cosmos, like seeds of life spreading and even overlapping one another, or perhaps like “Bubbles exploding in a pot of boiling water,” explains study co-author Henry W. Lin.
Taking this theory as valid, these seeds would create points where life would have made its way under the ideal conditions. If we detect signs of life in the atmospheres of other worlds, certain patterns could be established to locate these places based on what we know about Earth.
“Life could spread from one host star to another in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic. In this sense, the Milky Way would be infected by nuclei or pockets of life ”, affirms Avi Loeb, co-author of the work.
The study has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters .
