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she has covered the physics beat on staff at Quanta Magazine

as he is one of my favorite mathematicians. I

but when I clicked over to your website my eye was

and this sounds like a wonderful opportunity.”

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legal and ethical conundrums faced by LGBTQ minors and the

and it must be our fault if they do not make a tuneful and melodious sound.”

even if a mere instant in the history of our planet. And that’s something that universities can do -– not least because they’re full of young people who will live to the end of the century. We should use their expertise to address the extre...

as well as into the past -- this century may be a defining era. The century when humans jump-start the transition to electronic (and potentially immortal) entities

we may only ever recognise a small and atypical fraction of it. Moreover

but SETI programmes are a worthwhile gamble - because success in the search would carry the momentous message that concepts of logic and physics aren't limited to the hardware in human skulls.

we’d be most unlikely to ‘catch’ alien intelligence in the brief sliver of time when it was still in organic form.

depending on whether the Pacific ocean or the Eurasian land mass was facing them. The alien astronomers could infer the length of our 'day'

suppose an alien astronomer with a powerful telescope was viewing the Earth from (say) 30 light years away -- the distance of a nearby star. Our planet would seem

the others would loom larger than our moon does to us – swinging past fast across the sky.

on orbits with temperatures such that water neither boils nor stays frozen.

like the Sun is . But the evidence is mainly indirect; we don’t observe the planet

we could be of special cosmic significance for jump-starting the transition to inorganic (and potentially immortal) entities