Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology – VARCOSMOFUN’16

Session

Public lecture

15 Sept 2016, 18:30

Room 7 (Maritime University, Szczerbcowa Campus)

Conveners

Public lecture: “Are We Alone in the Universe?”

• Paul Davies (Arizona State University, USA)

101. Are We Alone in the Universe?

Prof. Paul C. W. Davies (Arizona State University, USA)

15/09/2016, 18:30

plenary

For 56 years astronomers have been sweeping the skies with radio telescopes in the hope of stumbling across a message from an extraterrestrial civilization. So far, nothing. Now the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has received a huge fillip with a $100 million donation by the philanthropist Yuri Milner. However, is the current search strategy misconceived? Should we abandon...