Manasvi Lingam is Assistant Professor of Astrobiology at the Florida Institute of Technology, an affiliate of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, and a member of the American Physical Society. Avi Loeb is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Are we alone in the universe? Lingam and Loeb provide expert guidance to the many dimensions of this fundamental question--and, just maybe, how to answer it.--Andrew H. Knoll, author of A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters A book of sweeping vision. Lingam and Loeb offer detailed and insightful analysis of the challenges we face as we investigate the universal distribution of this unusual material we call life. A helpful and fascinating read.--Charles Cockell, author of Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe