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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Avi Arthur C. Kagan: I was always driven by the desire to understand something new about the universe that would change our perspective and then stimulate aspirations for space. In principle we could discover a meaning to life just by exploring space, he says. We are not the smartest kid on the block there is someone else out there much more advanced than we are that planted life on earth and is watching so if we were to understand that it will obviously give us a completely new perspective right? "I think that that might also be a good metaphor for what physicists and scientists should do you know many of these questions are incredibly difficult perhaps even intractable"
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