Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
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Extraterrestrial
The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Bestseller

Author: Avi Loeb

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/26/2021


Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book  | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
“Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.”—Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization. In Extraterrestrial, Loeb takes readers inside the thrilling story of the first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system. He outlines his controversial theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our species and our planet. A mind-bending journey through the furthest reaches of science, space-time, and the human imagination, Extraterrestrial challenges readers to aim for the stars—and to think critically about what’s out there, no matter how strange it seems.

About Avi Loeb

ABRAHAM (AVI) LOEB is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, and serves as the science theory director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, as well as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. Author of four books and over 700 scientific papers, Loeb is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2012, Time selected Loeb as one of the twenty-five most influential people in space.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on May 04, 2021

The Hawaiian word'oumuamua. . . is loosely translated as "scout." In its announcement of the object's official designation, the [IAU] defined'oumuamuaslightly differently, as "a messenger from afar arriving first." Either way, the name clearly implies that the object was the first of others to c......more

Goodreads review by Manny on January 20, 2021

On October 19 2017, astronomers at an observatory in Hawaii noticed an unusual fast-moving object about twenty million miles from Earth. This soon became known as 'Oumuamua, a Hawaiian word meaning something like "scout". 'Oumuamua's orbit could easily be plotted, which showed that it came from outs......more

Goodreads review by Krista on August 28, 2020

If evidence of extraterrestrial life appeared in our solar system, would we notice it? If we were expecting the bang of gravity-defying ships on the horizon, do we risk missing the subtle sounds of other arrivals? What if, for instance, that evidence was inert or defunct technology — the equivale......more

Goodreads review by Troy on January 31, 2021

I may be entering one of those phases where I'm simply dissatisfied with everything I read for no particular reason. OR, perhaps this author's insistence on his own importance just became annoying as hell when stretched across two hundred pages. Loeb's writing style was quite off-putting for me, and......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on January 25, 2021

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth is a provocative and fascinating book written by American theoretical physicist and Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb. The book describes the 2017 detection of ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object passing through the So......more