Some of the qualities of life is that it needs to: (1) be able to grow, (2) be able to reproduce (3) have hereditary traits.
I'll grant that there are probably galactic-scale patterns of light and gravity. My guess is that the amount of noise would make it impossible for any "life" to form. The unspecified type of wave would have to have an ability to store information in such a way that it would change the behavior of the waves.
As a tangent, these requirements of life is what makes the RNA world hypothesis so compelling. RNA is able to both store information _and_ act as an enzyme. 2-fer!
I'll grant that there are probably galactic-scale patterns of light and gravity. My guess is that the amount of noise would make it impossible for any "life" to form. The unspecified type of wave would have to have an ability to store information in such a way that it would change the behavior of the waves.
As a tangent, these requirements of life is what makes the RNA world hypothesis so compelling. RNA is able to both store information _and_ act as an enzyme. 2-fer!