The Eerie Silence
Subtitle
Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
If aliens ever contact us, it will be perhaps the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. For 50 years, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post Detection Task Group, with "a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting" (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has so far encountered could mean. Here, he looks at exciting new ways to make contact with extra-terrestrial life. He considers what form advanced alien intelligence is likely to take if it exists. And perhaps more importantly, what exactly it would mean if it didn't — how extraordinary it would be if we were alone, to be human and here in this staggering, eerie silence.
Bio
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling science author. He is a Regents' Professor in the Beyond Center, the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and Department of Physics at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
In what has become known as Fermi's Paradox, the great nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, if there are aliens out there, where is everybody? After 50 years of looking, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project has likewise failed to find anybody. Cosmologist Davies ('The Mind of God'), winner of the 1995 Templeton Prize, believes that SETI's search for narrow-band radio signals from planets around other stars needs to be broadened to look for other possible signs of life.
Publishers Weekly
