In an illustrated lecture, Davies argues that we need to get away from the “radio message for mankind” concept established in the 1970s and instead enlarge the search for signs of alien civilizations. He discusses potential ramifications that contact with aliens would have. He also reveals the existence of a “shadow biosphere” that would prove that life on Earth happened easily and fast and so would be likely to occur on all Earthlike planets. (karenharris)… (more)
Works have been aliased into P. C. W. Davies. The Mind of God : The Scientific Basis for a Rational World 1,169 copies, 7 reviews God and the New Physics 899 copies, 3 reviews About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution 749 copies, 5 reviews The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the… 704 copies, 5 reviews The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? 592 copies, 13 reviews The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life 528 copies, 3 reviews How to Build a Time Machine 478 copies, 8 reviews The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of… 351 copies, 2 reviews The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence 332 copies, 21 reviews The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to… 308 copies, 1 review Other Worlds: Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universe 284 copies, 2 reviews Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature 253 copies, 2 reviews Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of… 233 copies, 4 reviews The Edge of Infinity: Where the Universe Came from and How it Will End 153 copies, 1 review The New Physics (Editor) 145 copies, 1 review Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Editor) 106 copies, 1 review The Demon in the Machine 106 copies, 2 reviews The Runaway Universe 72 copies The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to… (Editor) 38 copies The Big Questions 18 copies Human Mission to Mars. Colonizing the Red Planet 9 copies, 1 review Un solo universo o infiniti universi? 4 copies, 1 review The Locust Fields 1 copy Works have been aliased into P. C. W. Davies. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant… (Introduction, some editions) 3,467 copies, 32 reviews The Character of Physical Law (Introduction, some editions) 1,399 copies, 14 reviews Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the… (Contributor) 908 copies, 15 reviews The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Contributor) 731 copies, 6 reviews The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first… (Contributor) 362 copies, 6 reviews Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces (Introduction, some editions) 357 copies, 2 reviews Misfits (Cover artist, some editions) 73 copies, 3 reviews The Nature of Time (Contributor) 37 copies, 1 review Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (Afterword) 32 copies, 2 reviews The Future of God: Personal Adventures in Spirituality With Thirteen of… (Contributor) 24 copies THINKING ABOUT GÖDEL AND TURING: Essays on Complexity, 1970-2007 (Foreword) 23 copies, 1 review The Guardian science course : Part I : The universe (Contributor) 2 copies New Scientist, 15 October 1988 (Contributor) 2 copies Paul Davies has 1 past event. (show)
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