Search for our cosmic ancestry /
Wickramasinghe, Chandra
Search for our cosmic ancestry / Chandra Wickramasinghe - London World Scientific 2015 - 196 p.
The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years,
9789814616973
Extraterrestrial beings
Exobiology
Life on other planets
576.839 WIC-C
Search for our cosmic ancestry / Chandra Wickramasinghe - London World Scientific 2015 - 196 p.
The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years,
9789814616973
Extraterrestrial beings
Exobiology
Life on other planets
576.839 WIC-C