{"id":25543,"date":"2016-05-10T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-leading-physicist-says-its-childish-to-think-there-are-no-aliens"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:19","slug":"a-leading-physicist-says-its-childish-to-think-there-are-no-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-leading-physicist-says-its-childish-to-think-there-are-no-aliens","title":{"rendered":"A leading physicist says it\u2019s \u2018childish\u2019 to think there are no aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-leading-physicist-says-its-childish-to-think-there-are-no-aliens.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting approach to the topic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Do aliens exist? Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum gravity theory and author of the best-selling book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Brief-Lessons-Physics-Rovelli\/dp\/0241235960?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Seven Brief Lessons on Physics<\/a>,\u201d says it\u2019s an easy question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much space up there that it is childish to think that in a peripheral corner of an ordinary galaxy there should be something uniquely special,\u201d he writes. \u201cLife on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humans do have a long history of thinking they are special, though we\u2019re gradually learning otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/carlo-rovelli-on-extraterrestrial-life-it-must-exist-2016-5\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/carlo-rovelli-on-extraterrest...2016&#45;5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting approach to the topic. Do aliens exist? Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum gravity theory and author of the best-selling book \u201cSeven Brief Lessons on Physics,\u201d says it\u2019s an easy question. \u201cThere is so much space up there that it is childish to think that in a peripheral corner of an ordinary galaxy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67532,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543\/revisions\/67532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}