Is intelligent life trying to communicate with us from space?
Professor Paul Davies explores the potential and limits of
research into the origin and evolution of life, and the search
for life beyond Earth. Has ET maybe visited our planet ages ago
and left us a message? At the Australian National University,
Paul Davies discussed his latest book The Eerie Silence: Are We
Alone in the Universe? Tagged with “universe” (11) A discussion
about science, society, and the universe with Stephen Colbert,
who is out of character, at the Kimberley Academy in Montclair,
New Jersey. Quantum computing genius and Oxford don David
Deutsch is a thinker of such scale and audaciousness he can take
your breath away. His bottom line is simple and breathtaking all
at once. It’s this: human beings are the most important entities
in the universe. Or as Deutsch might have it, in the
“multiverse.” For eons, little changed on this planet, he says.
Progress was a joke. But once we got the Enlightenment and the
scientific revolution, our