It is argued that the origin of life is best understood in relationship to the participatory anthropic principle of Wheeler and must be extended into the realm of the multiverse. Also discussed is the hypothesis that life can only be possible in a given universe during a finite period as the universe expands in an accelerated fashion. We advance finally the idea that life, cosmic accelerated expansion, and quantum theory are intrinsically linked and are 3 faces of the same coin which reflect and describe physical reality.

The Quantum Origin of Life

For many years most scientists have believed that only the smallest particles or objects show quantum-mechanical behavior. However, recent studies, including those demonstrating an accelerating current cosmology indicate otherwise.

In fact (i) if the present universe is filled with phantom energy (as supported by astronomical data provided by Tegmark, 2004), then as the universe grows larger in size so too should its energy density. Therefore a sharper quantum-mechanical behavior should be expected to be manifested for the current universe as it rapidly expands with time. The result will be a true singularity when the size of the universe and its energy density are both simultaneously at infinity, resulting in the big rip (Caldwell, 2002), with phantom energy ripping apart galaxies, stars, planets and the universe.

On the other hand and quite more importantly, (ii) it has been recently demonstrated (González-Díaz and Robles-Pérez, 2009) that the ultimate cause for the current speeding-up of the universe is a universal quantum entanglement. Indeed, the very existence of the expanding universe is in violation of Bell's inequalities which imposes limits, and a collapse would be the result. Therefore, the collapse of the superimposed cosmic quantum state into the universe we are able to observe, or its associated complementarity between cosmological and microscopic laws, and any of all other aspects that characterize a quantum system, is to be expected according to quantum cosmology.

Likewise, the formation of molecules which are able to self replicate is also the result of a quantum process. Naturally, the innumerable billions upon billions of smaller molecules in the primordial soup of the creation, would have collided and quantum-mechanically formed trillions of new molecules throughout quantum processes. By contrast, the probability that these random collisions would produce a molecule able to self replicate is so tiny that such a molecule could never have been formed on Earth (Hoyle, 1983; Joseph, 2009).

Likewise, protein folding is a process which might be governed by quantum rules (González-Díaz and Sigüenza, 1997). Admittedly, the processes that could link protein folding with the creation of the first self replicating molecules is unknown. However, once these molecules are synthesized the required protein folding process would automatically take place. The problem remains that the possibility of these events taking place on Earth (Joseph, 2009), or even in a single universe is extremely unlikely. The same cannot be said of the multiverse.

Therefore, in the context of the multiverse, it can be predicted that at least one self-replicating molecule would have been fashioned. The descendants of this self-replicating molecule could have then been dispersed throughout the cosmos by the stellar mechanisms proposed by Joseph (2009). However, there are also other possibilities which we shall explore. That is, life may have originated and may have been dispersed via the multiverse.

Multiverse and the Origin of Life

According to anthropic principles and Wheeler's notion of the participatory principle (Wheeler, 1983), we exist in a universe which creates itself along a self-reference process. These principles are also in accordance with quantum physics and concepts of the multiverse. That is, the nature of the universe requires the creation of an observer. The evolving universe would have remained a 'multiverse' of all possible states in the absence of an observer. It is the creation of life which evolves into an observer whose mind imposes order on this system of all possibilities, such that all the numerous possibilities collapse into one actuality.

The existence of the universe predicts the existence of observers who are by themselves able to create all the physical reality that they are able to observe. Even the Big Bang is a creation of the observer according to quantum mechanics. Therefore, instead of the observer being created by the universe, the observer creates themselves and they create the universe. Of course, this raises the age old question of what came first, the hen or the egg?

Another crucial notion is that of Boltzmann brains (Dyson et al., 2002). A Boltzmann brain is a living entity which has self-awareness. Self-awareness and the life and the universe it inhabits, arise from random fluctuations out of a state of chaos. There are billions of self-aware entities on this planet, and therefore it can be predicted there must be billions of self-conscious entities on other worlds; a result of a random fluctuations out of chaos. Therefore, in the context of the multiverse, every universe should contain billions of Boltzmann brains.

Perhaps ours might be a typical civilization (Dyson et al., 2002; Vilenkin, 1998) that was created by some random fluctuation from vacuum and its condition of mediocrity (Vilenkin, 1998). Similar typical civilizations may also exist and it is this typicalness which created the universe we are able to observe or imagine.

The concept of the Boltzmann brain, however, does not explain the origin of life. It merely requires it. The Boltzmann spontaneous fluctuation is a process which is extremely unlikely to have occurred in the time frame leading from the big bang until now.

"Extremely unlikely" does not mean impossible. The probability, statistically speaking is not zero. The fact is, life exists. Self-aware entities exist. Further, in the context of a multiverse, the statistical probability for life to originate increases correspondingly.

Since everything that may happen with whatever small but still nonzero probability actually happens with real certainty in the realm of the quantum multiverse (Carr, 2007), our main hypothesis is that molecules able to self replicate and properly fold must have been immediately synthesized after the creation event. Therefore, life must necessarily have emerged in the context of the quantum multiverse.

The solution of the problem of the origin of life in the context of the quantum multiverse must be based on an analysis of conditional probability rather than just probability. Therefore, the whole process for originating life in the quantum multiverse must take place with full certainty. It is the multiverse, and the quantum connections which link them, which not only necessitate life's origins, but explains the dispersal of life and its continuity.

The Worm Hole and the Dispersal of Life.

If we extend the notion of typicalness (Dyson et al., 2002), and hence of mediocrity (Vilenkin, 1998), to the whole multiverse, then a civilization which is typical in a given universe, would be typical in the whole multiverse. Therefore, either the typical observers can in someway observe the universes they are not living in, or those outside their universe can observe it, or these universes do not actually physically exist, at least from a participatory physical standpoint principle.

Physical space-time connections between two universes of the multiverse through which the observers can retrieve some relevant physical information from these two universes is a realistic possibility. However, this could be achieved only by means of Lorentzian wormholes, with relative speeds between their mouths at all unspecified.

In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of space and time. Lorentzian wormholes are also known as Schwarzschild wormholes or Einstein-Rosen bridges. The wormhole is a passage way, or bridge, through spacetime which is folded over. The mouth of one worm hole leads to a tunnel, or tube, or throat, that connects to at least one other mouth hole on the other side of space time. Hypothetically, there may be multiple mouths leading to the same throat.

Panspermia and Wormholes

Panspermia is an increasingly credible theory which shifts the origin of life from Earth to other stars, planets, moons, comets, and meteors (Hoyle and Wickramasinghl, 2000; Joseph, 2009). Life, therefore, becomes an intrinsic feature of the cosmos.

Considered in the context of a single universe, panspermia offers a logical explanation for how life could have arisen once, and then became dispersed throughout the cosmos via mechanisms of star death and new star and new planet formation (Joseph, 2009).

However, if life is a matter concerning the whole extent of the multiverse, then panspermia has to be redefined as "holospermia." Etymologically, holospermia means "seeds in the wholeness" and expresses the idea that the seeds of life were spread throughout the whole multiverse in our remote past. The dispersal of life throughout the multiverse could occur through wormholes.

The notion of holospermia posits that rather than life being present at the Big Bang, we instead originated in the set of all universes making up the multiverse. Therefore, although panspermia may explain how life could travel from star to star and from planet to planet (Joseph, 2009), holospermia would explain how life originated in our universe.

Life, therefore, is an intrinsic feature of the multiverse, and it is through life, and the observer that the universe is created. Therefore, both life and the universe arise from the multiverse.

Eternal Life and the Multiverse

If life is a feature of the multiverse, then the multiverse insures that life becomes eternal.

It has been shown (Dyson, 1979) that whereas life cannot be maintained in the future of a de Sitter or decelerating universe, as it would be destroyed in the big crunch, life can exist indefinitely in universe filled with dark energy or phantom energy. In fact, for a constant equation of state with w= Const. < -1, the condition

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