Is it arrogant for humans to think that out of the trillions of planets in the universe, ours is the only one with any kind of intelligent life? Daniel Whiteson discusses his thoughts on the Drake equation, a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Whiteson’s book, “Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality”, is available for purchase now: https://amzn.to/4oh866u
Daniel Ofir Whiteson is an American experimental particle physicist and professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and computer science from Rice University and graduated with a PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley.
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