Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time

The search for planets capable of acting as a cradle for a new human genesis has begun. Astronomers are searching the night sky above you for planets circling distant stars within what space scientists refer to as a stars life-zone or habitable-zone. This zone is an area at an orbital distance from the star in question that allows for the formation of the elements of life and in the search for planets capable of supporting Earth-based life astronomers are mainly looking for water.

Only looking for planets with the elements we know can support Earth-based life could be putting human made limitations on the search for habitable planets and the creation of life that will prevent us from seeing the whole picture. Life on Earth has always shown itself to be adaptable, unpredictable and totally uncontrollable, and the environments life could evolve in are probably beyond current human imagination. Space scientists conducting computer simulations of planetary systems indicate that the variables that determine the life-zone of a star and its suitability for human life are just being studied and discussed. Water could exist in a usable form for the creation of life during specific periods of time on a planet's surface for Earth-like planets close to a Jupiter-size planet orbiting in a highly elliptical orbit. A description that fits many of the exo-planets discovered, so far, space scientists note.

A highly perturbed orbit could result in an Earth-like planet experiencing long time-periods of freezing and heating temperatures, with a period of ideal weather for the creation of life, squeezed in between. Hardly the ideal situation for human life, and this simulation is only one of the possible exotic habitats we could find on our journey to the beginning of the universe. Human life could be walking on planets in the centuries ahead where the length of day varies wildly, the seasons are unrecognizable, and the year just seems to go on forever.

The crazy zoo of planets astronomers are discovering in the night sky is threatening to break the human made shackles we have attempted to put upon them. The environmental conditions on one or some of these planets could one day provide the elements for a new human genesis that could shatter the foundations of belief systems across planet Earth. Environments capable of supporting human evolution and the development of higher life forms? Astronomers and space scientists have taken another step forward to discovering an answer to this question and astrobiologists are currently continuing the search for a second-Earth for humankind.