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In The Frantic Search For An Elusive 'cure,' Few Researchers Stand Back And Ask A Very Basic Question: Why Does Cancer Exist? What Is Its Place In The Grand Story Of Life?

I Suppose My Interest In Looking For Life Elsewhere In The Universe Really Dates Back To My Teens. What Teenager Doesn't Look Up At The Sky At Night And Think Am I Alone In The Universe? Well Most People Get Over It, But I Never Did And Though I Made A Career More In Physics And Cosmology Than Astrobiology I've Always Had A Soft Spot For The Subject Of Life Because It Does Seem So Mysterious.

An Argument Often Given For Why Earth Couldn't Host Another Form Of Life Is That Once The Life We Know Became Established, It Would Have Eliminated Any Competition Through Natural Selection. But If Another Form Of Life Were Confined To Its Own Niche, There Would Be Little Direct Competition With Regular Life.

In Science, A Healthy Skepticism Is A Professional Necessity, Whereas In Religion, Having Belief Without Evidence Is Regarded As A Virtue.

Matter Is Regarded As Being Constituted By A Region Of Space In Which The Field Is Extremely Intense . . . . . . There Is No Place In This New Kind Of Physics Both For The Field And Matter, For The Field Is The Only Reality.