If the universe is teeming with aliens-- where is everybody? : fifty solutions to the Fermi paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life / Stephen Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Stephen, 1963-

Contributor:

Jessie A. Rodman Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fermi's paradox.

Life on other planets.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Fermi, Enrico.

Physical Description:

xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Where is everybody

Fifty solutions to the Fermi paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life

Place of Publication:

New York : Copernicus Books in association with Praxis Pub., [2002]

Summary:

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present. But one of the four, Enrico Fermi, asked, "If these civilizations do exist, where is everybody?" Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. Webb discusses in detail the 50 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jessie A. Rodman Fund.

ISBN:

0387955011

OCLC:

50164852