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emeritus of physics at Princeton University: “It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe are hypothetical.”42
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life


The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
Adding all other galaxies in the observable volume of the universe increases the number of habitable planets to a zetta, or 1021—a figure greater than the number of grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth.
Avi Loeb • Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
In addition to being small and oddly shaped, ‘Oumuamua was strangely luminous. Despite its diminutive size, as it passed the Sun and reflected the Sun’s light, ‘Oumuamua proved to be relatively bright, at least ten times more reflective than typical solar system asteroids or comets. If, as seems possible, ‘Oumuamua was a few times smaller than the
... See moreAvi Loeb • Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Discovering the majority of the matter that makes up our universe after decades of confusing it for a vacuum should force us to ponder what else we can’t observe even though it exists.