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The Eerie Silence : Are We Alone In The Universe?
Are We Alone in the Universe?
By: Paul Davies
Hardcover | 29 March 2010 | Edition Number 1
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On April 8, 1960, a young American astronomer, Frank Drake, turned a radio telescope toward the star Tau Ceti and listened for several hours to see if he could detect any artificial radio signals. With this modest start began a worldwide project of potentially momentous significance. Known as SETI—Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—it is an amalgam of science, technology, adventure, curiosity and a bold vision of humanity's destiny. Drake has said that SETI is really a search for ourselves—who we are and what our place might be in the grand cosmic scheme of things.
Yet with one tantalizing exception, SETI has produced only negative results. After millions of hours spent eavesdropping on the cosmos astronomers have detected only the eerie sound of silence. Paul Davies asks, what does that mean? Are we in fact alone in the vastness of the universe? Is ET out there, but not sending any messages our way? Might we be surrounded by messages we simply don't recognize? Is SETI a waste of time and money, or should we press ahead with new and more sensitive antennas? Or look somewhere else? And if a signal were to be received, what then? How would we—or even should we—respond?
The Eerie Silence takes us on a journey through close encounters past and present, looks towards the future, and examines the foundations of carbon-based life on this planet to question whether we will ever find it anywhere else.
About The Author
Paul Davies has achieved an international reputation for his ability to explain the significance of advanced scientific ideas in simple language. He is the author of some twenty books and has written and presented a number of TV and radio programmes. He has also won the prestigious Templeton Prize, the world's largest award for intellectual endeavour, and a Glaxo Science Writers' Fellowship. He is currently Professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
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ISBN: 9781846141423
ISBN-10: 1846141427
Published: 29th March 2010
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 24.0 x 16.2 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.49
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