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If a biologist’s controversial on this planet is definitely the British Richard Dawkins. Professor at the University of Oxford, Dawkins offered on Monday 22 September, a conference at the opening of Starmus Festival, held in Tenerife. He was surprised because he did not speak of non-existence of God, but how can be the extraterrestrial life, since no doubt of its existence. “There are a lot of life in the universe, and if I say that there a billion ways is little different,” he said.
The audience was exceptional. Following his words were the physicist Stephen Hawking, at 72 a great example of human endurance, Nobel Laureates Robert Wilson or Harold Kroto, cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and as a musician and astronomer Brian May. These are all part of the spectacular scientific cast that has brought together fellow astronomer Garik Israelian, the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.
Dawkins recognized that if we find life outside Earth, “will change the human-centric vision we “and supported the need to keep looking. He also stated that “we should not be afraid [extraterrestrial life] because we detect radiation, and the distances are so vast that there is no possibility that invade us.”
The biologist said that alien life must be complex as ours, based on the genes, but possibly not in DNA but in RNA, which defined its primitive state. He even discussed how would these beings on a planet with a force greater than Earth’s gravity (described them very heavy and strong legs) or less out (with fine points of support on the ground, almost floating). He also detailed how they could be your eyes, “because these organs might have evolved to 40 independent forms on this planet”
THE END. DISCLOSURE
Imagine, with evolutionary biology based on data such as might be the inhabitants of other worlds was Dawkins’s contribution to an event being held for the second time in history in the Canaries. This meeting, supported the insular government brings together many leading scientists astronauts and musicians to speak “of humanity and the universe from the point of view of the disclosure” in the words of Israelian.
Before Dawkins, the American physicist Robert Wilson was told how the scientific process that led him to disclose, with teammate Alan Arnold Penzias, that the noise captured with a large antenna in 1964 was the echo that comes from the Big Bang, the beginning of the Universe, known as “radiation cosmic microwave. “For this work would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978″ There was a time when we thought the noise was coming from the organic matter of two pigeons that nested in the antenna, so the caught and sent by farthest mail. But they were not to blame, “recalled the scientist humor. He also spoke of the unbelievers who encouraged them to leave work. “But we were young and eventually science needs new people, fresh air to resume issues; in the end, thanks to that our efforts will eventually accept the Big Bang theory, “he said.
The hall of the hotel where the inauguration was held was packed. Stephen Hawking among them, accompanied by one of his nurses and an assistant, did not seem to miss a word of what his colleagues explained. In between, he was required by those who wanted to take a photo of the famous scientist who has devoted his life to trying to understand how the universe works. Something that seems to have given strength to live with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from 20 years.
Stepehn Hawking, watching one of the interventions during Starmus Festival.
“In the Canary Islands we are extremely honored to have the opportunity to make our humble but committed contribution towards this endeavor of humanity,” he said in his speech Juan Bautista Ruiz Alzola, director of the Agency for Research.
Ahead are five days long awaited interventions like Hawking, who as exceptional offer two lectures, and concerts like Rick Wakeman, former member of the rock group Yes, and Brian May , part of the advisory board of Starmus Festival.
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