How Long to Read Astronomical Origins of Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Astronomical Origins of Life?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 2 minutes to read Astronomical Origins of Life by B. Hoyle

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules. Astrobiologists tend to believe that abiotic mater ial will give rise to life in any place where these molecules exist in appreciable abundances and where physical conditions approximate to those occurring here on Earth. We think this popular view is wrong, for it is not the existence of the building blocks of life that is crucial but the exceedingly complicated structures in which they are arranged in living forms. The probability of arriving at biologically significant arrangements is so very small that only by calling on the resources of the whole universe does there seem to be any possibility of life originating, a conclusion that requires life on the Earth to be a minute component of a universal system. Some think that the hugely improbable transition from non-living to living mat ter can be achieved by dividing the transition into many small steps, calling on a so-called 'evolutionary' process to bridge the small steps one by one. This claim turns on semantic arguments which seek to replace the probability for the whole chain by the sum of the individual probabilities of the many steps, instead of by their product. This is an error well known to those bookies who are accustomed to taking bets on the stacking of horse races. But we did not begin our investigation from this point of view.

How long is Astronomical Origins of Life?

Astronomical Origins of Life by B. Hoyle is 361 pages long, and a total of 90,611 words.

This makes it 122% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Astronomical Origins of Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 15 minutes to read Astronomical Origins of Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Astronomical Origins of Life?

Astronomical Origins of Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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