Could there have been a single origin of life in a big bang universe?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6694, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gordon, Richard ^a   Hoover, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Big bang; Biohorizon; Cosmology; Horizon; Origin of life; Panspermia; Universe

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY;

BIOHORIZON; PANSPERMIA; UNIVERSE;

ASTROBIOLOGY;

EID: 42149189539     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.737041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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