In The Frantic Search For An Elusive

We Might Expect Intelligent Life And Technological Communities To Have Emerged In The Universe Billions Of Years Ago. Given That Human Society Is Only A Few Thousand Years Old, And That Human Technological Society Is Mere Centuries Old, The Nature Of A Community With Millions Or Even Billions Of Years Of Technological And Social Progress Cannot Even Be Imagined. ... What Would We Make Of A Billion-year-old Technological Community?

I Suppose My Interest In Looking For Life Elsewhere In The Universe Really Dates Back To My Teens. What Teenager Doesn't Look Up At The Sky At Night And Think Am I Alone In The Universe? Well Most People Get Over It, But I Never Did And Though I Made A Career More In Physics And Cosmology Than Astrobiology I've Always Had A Soft Spot For The Subject Of Life Because It Does Seem So Mysterious.

Until Now, Physical Theories Have Been Regarded As Merely Models With Approximately Describe The Reality Of Nature. As The Models Improve, So The Fit Between Theory And Reality Gets Closer. Some Physicists Are Now Claiming That Supergravity Is The Reality, That The Model And The Real World Are In Mathematically Perfect Accord.

The Universe Is Not A Collection Of Objects, But Is An Inseparable Web Of Vibrating Energy Patterns In Which No One Component Has Reality Independently From The Entirety. Included In The Entirety Is The Observer.

The Laws Of Physics ... Seem To Be The Product Of Exceedingly Ingenious Design... The Universe Must Have A Purpose.