Post by Radrook Admin on Aug 9, 2023 22:19:40 GMT -5
The Habitable Zone: Goldilocks Paradox
Definition
Definition
What is the habitable zone?
The definition of “habitable zone” is the distance from a star at which liquid water could exist on orbiting planets’ surfaces. Habitable zones are also known as Goldilocks’ zones, where conditions might be just right – neither too hot nor too cold – for life.
exoplanets.nasa.gov/search-for-life/habitable-zone
The definition of “habitable zone” is the distance from a star at which liquid water could exist on orbiting planets’ surfaces. Habitable zones are also known as Goldilocks’ zones, where conditions might be just right – neither too hot nor too cold – for life.
exoplanets.nasa.gov/search-for-life/habitable-zone
The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Goldilocks is a fussy little girl whose porridge has to be just right — neither too hot nor too cold. It’s the same with life itself — or at least, the kind of water-based life we’re familiar with on Earth.
For a planet has to be "just right", or able to support life, it cannot be so cold that water only exists as frozen ice, and it cannot be so hot that the water all boils away. Only planets within a certain range of orbits dubbed the "Goldilocks zone" — or formally known as the "habitable zone" — are thought to be capable of supporting life.
www.livescience.com/goldilocks-zone
For a planet has to be "just right", or able to support life, it cannot be so cold that water only exists as frozen ice, and it cannot be so hot that the water all boils away. Only planets within a certain range of orbits dubbed the "Goldilocks zone" — or formally known as the "habitable zone" — are thought to be capable of supporting life.
www.livescience.com/goldilocks-zone
Contrary to what was confidently stated on YouTube, Earth is not the only planet considered to be in the habitable or Goldilock zone. There are plenty of planets that fit into the so called Goldilocks Zone. The problem is that just because a planet does, doesn't necessarily make it humanly habitable or friendly to life since there are other very crucial requirements.
For example, a planet within that zone might orbit an unstable star that occasionally increases its radiation, and showers its surface with deadly radiation.
The video describes other factors which make the goldilocks-zone designation totally irrelevant.
The Habitable Zone: Goldilocks Paradox
Addendum
The biggest flaw with this habitable-zone concept, is its association with the idea of abiogenesis, the emergence of life from non life. You see, unfortunately for its millions of staunch supporters, this popular idea has absolutely no observational nor experimental support.
In short, it is based on wishful thinking, and as every scientist and well-informed person knows, wishful thinking goes completely contrary to the scientific method.
So this idea that life suddenly appears just because a little water might be present, is merely ill-founded, atheistic quackery which is cunningly camouflaged with a transparent, thin veneer of respectability designed to deceive the those that have been methodically brainwashed until rendered gullible.