Avi Loeb
"Why do we think that we are sufficiently important for advanced civilizations on other planets to care about us and visit us? It's possible that they cocoon themselves because they don't want to degrade their quality of life by interacting with lesser civilizations. We need to go out and search."
Avi Loeb
"Why do we think that we are sufficiently important for advanced civilizations on other planets to care about us and visit us? It's possible that they cocoon themselves because they don't want to degrade their quality of life by interacting with lesser civilizations. We need to go out and search."
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a New York Times bestselling author. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative, and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Loeb wrote eight books and over 800 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space.