The Eerie Silence

Paul DaviesThe Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the Fermi Paradox - why isnt the universe teeming with alien life?

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.

For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETIs Post-Detection Task Group, with a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean.

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 didnt ­- how extraordinary it would be if we were alone, to be human and here in this staggering, eerie silence...

A magnificent cosmic tour of what might be out there in space
Sunday Times

Rather wonderful
New Scientist

Conveys excellently the fascination of the quest
The Times

An authoritatively written, immensely clear, lay persons guide to the many things we dont know about the rest of the universe
Guardian

Paul Davies 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 The Eerie Silence:Searching for Ourselves in the Universe, The Goldilocks Enigma:Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? and The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning.