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  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141944050
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

The Eerie Silence

Are We Alone in the Universe?





'A magnificent cosmic tour of what might be out there in space' Sunday Times

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 fifty 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 . . .

  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141944050
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

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Praise for The Eerie Silence

In an area more given to fabulation than fact, [Paul Davies'] level-headedness is positively refreshing. If you ever start worrying about why no one is talking to us, this is the book to calm you down

David Papineau, Observer

Davies is the most engaging of writers

Clive Cookson

An immensely readable investigation of the SETI enterprise

Michael Hanlon, New Scientist

A magnificent cosmic tour d'horizon of what we know, and what we might yet encounter out there, in the apparent emptiness of deep space

Christoper Hart, Sunday Times
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