Adam Frank
Auteur de About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
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Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and a regular contributor to Discover and Astronomy magazines. The cofounder of NPR's 13:7 Cosmos and Culture blog, his work has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing, and he has been the recipient of an afficher plus American Astronomical Society prize for scientific writing. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Adam Frank
Taijiquan and the Search for the Little Old Chinese Man: Understanding Identity through Martial Arts (2006) 8 exemplaires
Leaves from the scrap-book of a Scottish exile 1 exemplaire
Yes, There Have Been Aliens / The New York Times 1 exemplaire
Embracing Life And Death 1 exemplaire
About Time 1 exemplaire
Kampf an Preußens Küste. 1 exemplaire
Verrat an Frankreichs Küsten. 1 exemplaire
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Yes, very hard. It might take up to a minute to stumble across the news that a repeating FRB had been discovered in 2019 - the first of its kind.
Humanity became aware of Fast Radio Bursts over 10 years ago. But they were all singular events. However this signal is long-lasting and has a 16 day pattern to it. It comes from a galaxy 500 million light-years away. That raises the next point: that even if this is a sign of intelligence, of if the collaboration between SETI and the New Mexico array does reveal anything, it won't be a local phenomenon.
And to discover "intelligence" (or signs of it) that are so distant we can't interact with it - even if it still exists, after taking millions of years to arrive here - makes the issue abstract in the extreme. The universe is so large there certainly is/has/will-be intelligence in it. Or another intelligence, depending on personal opinion. Whether it is detectable, contactable, and local or approaching makes all the difference regarding its scientific importance.
There remain equally or more plausible explanations that don't employ extraterrestrial intelligence. One big problem for the alien idea is the variety of locations and distances involved. Of the FRBs that have been localised, some are from billions of light-years away; others are from hundreds of millions. As astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute has noted, that alone is reason enough to discount the hypothesis that FRBs are extraterrestrial communications.
As Arthur C. Clarke said " Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"
The immensely bizarre and fantastical prospect that life has only emerged once and will only emerge once in all of space and time throws up questions that could never be answered. And I'm speaking as someone who currently doesn’t believe in god.
I believe that there must be or will be other life out there at some point,
But if there really isn't, in the past or future?
Unfortunately Frank's book is the wrost kind of book when it comes to Science. Humans were not the first on Earth?? WTF? I love SF, but when I want to read SF I'll go and get me one...I don't want to read SF disguised as Science.… (plus d'informations)