Life in the Universe and the big bang

• These genetic studies suggest that the earliest life on Earth may have resembled the bacteria today found near deep ocean volcanic vents (black smokers) and geothermal hot springs.
• A habitable world contains the basic necessities for life as we know it, including liquid water.
• Big Bang Theory :The early universe must have been extremely hot and dense at early times.
• Regions now on opposite sides of the sky were close together before inflation caused a rapid expansion of space pushing these regions far apart at a speed faster than the speed of light.
• inflation: bried, very rapid expansion of the early Universe.