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chakma613:
The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?

mord:

--- Quote from: chakma613 on August 17, 2007, 10:26:33 AM ---The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?

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Maybe they mean the solar system surrounding the star

Shlomo:
When it says G-d travels to the different worlds, I think this is referring to the the four spiritual worlds (Asiyah, Beriah, Yetzirah, and Atzilus).

I could be wrong, though.

newman:
With all the billions of stars, planets and moons out there, the probability of other life forms makes sense just out of mathematical probability alone.

Shlomo:

--- Quote from: newman on August 17, 2007, 01:16:48 PM ---With all the billions of stars, planets and moons out there, the probability of other life forms makes sense just out of mathematical probability alone.

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I happen to agree.

Let me push your thoughts a little... That wouldn't, necessarily, mean that they would have to be made of something we could comprehend. Maybe they are made from energy... perhaps there are beings made from the poles of magnetism, energies we'd know as heat, or even time itself or something in that direction of thinking? Why would Hashem be limited to create only creatures made from the fabric of our world, time, and space? There are infinite numbers of levels and possibilities for life. G-d has no boundaries and I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were an infinite number of creations within the infinite number of possibilities.

And let me take it one step further. One hour here could be a million years somewhere else or an hour somewhere else could be billions of years here... and this is only where time exists! As you approach the center of a black hole (within the event horizon) time continues to slow down forever keeping you from ever making it to the infinite point in the center! Who's to say that entire creations don't come and go in a moment to us? We know in a dream, it can be as years to us in only a few minutes. Who's to say that when we die, that moment our brain shuts down, it isn't like an eternity with Hashem of it's very own? Think about how infinite and awesome this universe is BEYOND just the number of stars or planets.

This is all just theory and some speculation... but it's amazingly deep and interesting to think about.

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