
Search For Our Cosmic Ancestry, The
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 18. December 2014
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-981-4616-96-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, thus making panspermia and the transfer of microbial life between such planets an inevitable fact. The book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe theory of cometary panspermia in a manner accessible to a wide general readership.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
473 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4616-96-6 (9789814616966)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Genesis of Panspermia; Primordial Soup and Evolution; Cosmological Context; From Dust to Life; Comets; Cosmic Viruses in Our Genes; Evidence from Epidemics; Microorganisms Entering The Earth; Searches for Life in the Solar System; Search for Exoplanets; Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Meteorite Clues; The Mystery of Red Rain;