If We're Looking For Intelligence

General Relativity Is The Cornerstone Of Cosmology And Astrophysics. It Has Also Provided The Conceptual Basis For String Theory And Other Attempts To Unify All The Forces Of Nature In Terms Of Geometrical Structures.

Most Research Into Life's Murky Origin Has Been Carried Out By Chemists. They've Tried A Variety Of Approaches In Their Attempts To Recreate The First Steps On The Road To Life, But Little Progress Has Been Made. Perhaps That Is No Surprise, Given Life's Stupendous Complexity.

It Will Be In The Convergence Of Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology And Cancer Biology That The Answer To Cancer Will Lie. Nor Will This Confluence Be A One-way Street.

Supposing We Knew That Up There Is Some Alien Civilization And It's Sending Radio Signals Our Way We Should Not Tell The Public Where That Is. We Could Say That We've Picked Up A Signal, But We Should Not Tell Them Where For The Simple Reason That Anybody Could Commandeer A Radio Telescope, Set Themselves Up As Some Self Appointed Spokesperson Of Mankind And Start Beaming All Sorts Of Crazy Messages Back To The Aliens.

Many Investigators Feel Uneasy Stating In Public That The Origin Of Life Is A Mystery, Even Though Behind Closed Doors They Admit They Are Baffled.