Paul Davies-The Eerie Silence

18 Mar - 18 Mar

Time: 6pm-7pm

Please call 0845 345 1235 to book tickets.

Cost: £6.50 / £4.50

In 1960 a young American astronomer, Frank Drake, turned a radio telescope toward the star Tau Ceti and listened for several hours to see if he could detect any artificial radio signals.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), an amalgam of science, technology, adventure and curiosity, has detected only the eerie sound of silence after millions of hours of cosmos eavesdropping.

In his new book, The Eeerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe, Professor Paul Davies, Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, asks: “Is ET out there, but not sending any messages our way? Is SETI a waste of time and money, or should we press ahead with new and more sensitive antennas? And if a signal were to be received, what then? How would we - or even should we - respond?”