The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
A provocative and mind-expanding look at the search for alien intelligence by a leading physicist and astrobiologist.
A provocative and mind-expanding look at the search for alien intelligence by a leading physicist and astrobiologist.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780547133249 (0547133243)
Publish date: April 13th 2010
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
Davies is extremely knowledgeable on the topic of the search for alien intelligence, and this book is comprehensive. It's also a call for us to be less limited in what we're looking for to define life, and I'm all for that. So for someone who doesn't know much about this topic and is interested, I...
This is a great book. The greatest potentially answerable question 'are we alone in the universe?' is explored from every imaginable perspective and with its possible ramifications. I don't think any one explains science to non-scientist better than Paul Davies does. He excels at giving both sides o...
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Are we or aren't we alone in the universe? Mr. Davies presents valid points for both sides of the argument. Because of the hypothetical nature of any of his points, a reader may find some of his more esoteric of his conclusions difficult to follow. As befits Mr. Davies' background, there is a hea...
Brief review to come. A spirited, engaging read, and not just because it talked about the Mekons.