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A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in our Universe and Beyond

A formula for life? New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our Universe and beyond
How the same region of the universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in our universe, 30 and 10 times the dark energy density in our universe. The images are generated from a suite of cosmological simulations. Credit: Oscar Veenema

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.

This was the formula that American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.

More than 60 years on, astrophysicists led by Durham Uni...

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