Yip Lecture 2022 | Avi Loeb | Extraterrestrial Life

Harvard CMSA Second Annual Yip Lecture 2022

Speaker: Avi Loeb

Title: Extraterrestrial Life

Abstract: Are we alone? It would be arrogant to think that we are, given that a quarter of all stars host a habitable Earth-size planet. Upcoming searches will aim to detect markers of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the Solar System. We also have unprecedented technologies to detect signs of intelligent civilizations through industrial pollution of planetary atmospheres, space archaeology of debris from dead civilizations or artifacts such as photovoltaic cells that are used to re-distribute light and heat on the surface of a planet or giant megastructures. Our own civilization is starting to explore interstellar travel. Essential information may also arrive as a “message in a bottle”, implying that we should examine carefully any unusual object that arrives to our vicinity from outside the Solar System, such as `Oumuamua.

This lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip.

[Garrettmjohnston]

The lucidity and depth of Mr. Loeb’s thinking almost suggests that he is himself the representative of a civilization billions of years more advanced than ours

[MohanKumarcb]

Excellent pictured. Kindly request you to read Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master a yogis Autobiography by Sri M, where he recounts with a visit from Allien from Sarpa Loka.

[QuantumWytchCafe]

Wonderful presentation! We are reading Extraterrestrial for our book club this month! This makes me miss college ☺️

[parrotsarnoso]

Our Universe is infinite and timeless. We created time. We created the sand clock, the calendar, etc to measure time. Just like we created a pencil to write or a micrometer to measure dimension on things. Time is a tool. However, the Universe is timeless, has been there forever and will stay there forever. Is not expanding nor is receding.