Lesson 9: Other Worlds, Other Life References Vacuum Diagrams and Manifold Time science fiction by Stephen Baxter; a good interpretation of current physics knowledge The Life of the Cosmos by L. Smolin 1997 Oxford University Press Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe by Freeman Dyson 1979, Rev. Mod. Phys.51, 447. Speculations by a noted physicist Searching for Interstellar Communications 1959, G. Cocconi and P. Morrison, Nature 184, 844-846 Intelligent Life in the Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, 1966, Dell Publishing Co., New York The Galactic Club - Intelligent Life in Outer Space by Ronald N. Bracewell, 1974, (reprint of Stanford Alumni Association publication) W. H. Freeman & Co.,San Francisco Life in the Universe edited by John Billingham, 1981, MIT Press, Cambridge. Proceedings of a 1979 conference at NASA/Ames. Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience by B.R. Finney and E. M. Jones, 1984, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. The Fermi story is found here, also Dave Criswell's and other futuristic schemes. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ The home of the largest distributed computing project on Earth. Many details on radio SETI techniques and results at /about_seti/ under this URL.