{"product_id":"9780141037783","title":"The eerie silence: searching for ourselves in the universe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Davies' \u003ci\u003eThe Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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' (\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e), explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 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... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A magnificent cosmic tour of what might be out there in space'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Rather wonderful'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Conveys excellently the fascination of the quest'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'An authoritatively written, immensely clear, lay person's guide to the many things we don't know about the rest of the universe'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Davies\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, and co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative, both at Arizona State University. An internationally-acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, Davies is the author of some twenty award-winning books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Eerie Silence: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSearching for Ourselves in the Universe, The Goldilocks Enigma: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhy is the Universe Just Right for Life?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401263104343,"sku":"9780141037783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/5179813482238.jpg?v=1791870974","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9780141037783","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}