The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

March 29, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice

Cosmologist Paul Davies from NAI’s ASU team, winner of the 1995 Templeton Prize, believes that SETI’s search for narrow-band radio signals from planets around other stars needs to be broadened to look for other possible signs of life. In his new book, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence, he explores the idea that aliens may be using far more advanced technology than radio to signal the cosmos, such as manipulating pulsars to act as beacons or even neutrino signaling. Davies also puts forth the possibility that alien probes may be silently trolling the solar system. The author surveys popular topics in science fiction such as Dyson spheres, time travel, and wormholes, and decides that they’re not feasible under physics as we understand it. He concludes with a far-ranging look at what might happen here on Earth when we make first contact.

Mar 29, 2010

Greyson said:

Thanks for the post. It’s good to see that scientists are admitting that what they know about physics may no longer be adequate when it comes to contacting civilizations that are possibly millions of years more advanced than ours. With all due respect I have a feeling that NASA knows more about Alien Intelligence than they are letting on.

Mar 30, 2010

Mrinal Saurabh said:

Wow.. we had a lot to learn

Apr 3, 2010

Martin said:

Recently was reading about synergetics after pondering the 30 year anniversarry of the WOW signal in the 1.5GHz range at a 10MHz bandwidth. Humans far too often look in the wrong places for possible signals from lightyears ago. The attempts at alien communication may even be in the paradoxes of probability and statistics in physics, where without electromagnetic radiation as the primary medium, we might not be bound by the speed of light in making sensitive measurements of interactive intelligence. Funny if we as humans would have been put in a dark matter prison in this corner of the universe, that effectively shields us from possibly on-going gravity modulated forms of real time info exchange that could be detected by deviations in quantum probabilities in cryogenic, superconducting receivers. The best part would be to know when we are not actually receiving signals from our earthbound peers doing the same experiments.

May 18, 2010

Wolf said:

I would like to know what NASA has to say about the recently leaked information regarding the Intelligent Signals that have been found via radio telescopes for the stars Epsilon Eridany, Izar (Epsilon Bootes), Thuban (Alpha Draconis) Mehr anzeigen, Proxima Centauri, and Aldebaran in Taurus?

The public already knows that NASA isn’t what today’s conventional technology represents. Most have already shown through use of high powered telescopes and HD video recorders what is actually flying up in orbit (and in abundance).

It’s time to reveal the real technology being used and being kept secret from the entire civilized world.