Convergence to cosmicrobia : the final acceptance of life as a cosmic phenomenon /

Forty years ago, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe challenged the long-held belief that life originated spontaneously from a primordial soup on Earth - a concept rooted in Aristotelian philosophy and dominant in Western science for over two millennia. They proposed that life might have originate...

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Other Authors: Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939- (Editor), Schild, Rudolph (Editor), Forrington, Cass (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Rudy Schild, Chandra Wickramasinghe
  • Chapter 1. Cosmology and the origins of life
  • Chapter 2. Life beyond the limits of our planetary system
  • Chapter 3. Quest for life on Jupiter and its moons
  • Chapter 4. Reluctance to admit we are not alone as an intelligent lifeform in the Cosmos
  • Chapter 5. The second Copernican revolution
  • Chapter 6. Search for Aliens, and UFO's
  • Chapter 7. A note on a biological explanation for the ERE phenomenon
  • Chapter 8. Cosmicrobia : a new designation for the theory of cosmic life
  • Chapter 9. Search for UFOs and Aliens: modern evidence and ancient traditions
  • Chapter 10. Life and the Universe : a final synthesis
  • Chapter 11. Standard Big-Bang Cosmology faces insurmountable obstacles?