Extraterrestrial with Avi Loeb

Somewhere in the Skies

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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On episode 195 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we welcome Harvard Professor and astrophysicist, Avi Loeb. Loeb made international headlines in 2017 when a strange interstellar object passed through our solar system for the first time in recorded history. He published a controversial paper theorizing that this object, named 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "scout") could possibly have been a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization. He expands on these theories in a new book titled, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Loeb discusses his theories and then dives deep in to the lack of wonder and risks in today's mainstream scientific community and what must change as we move forward in the ever-changing world and universe around us. It's an episode unlike any other and a conversation that lay somewhere in our interstellar skies. Full video interview also available by CLICKING HERE Order 'Extraterrestrial' by Avi Loeb by CLICKING HERE WARNING: Ryan's personal audio is very low-quality in this episode as he had major microphone and WiFi issues. Apologies in advance and the issues have been resolved moving forward! Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies Website: www.somewhereintheskies.com YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Official Store: CLICK HERE Order Ryan's Book by CLICKING HERE Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Watch Mysteries Decoded for free at www.CWseed.com Episode edited by Jane Palomera Moore Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES is part of the eOne podcast network. To learn more, CLICK HERE Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the show, Harvard professor and astrophysicist, Avi Loeb.
0:04.7	You know, the frontier of physics is extra dimensions. The frontier of physics is string theory.
0:09.4	But these are concepts for which there is no experimental evidence.
0:12.9	And they have been working on these for several decades.
0:16.3	If that is the mainstream for which awards are given, for which you can get a job,
0:21.1	then something is distorted in the scientific culture,
0:24.1	because there is a significant component of the theoretical physics community,
0:29.3	working on things that the public doesn't really understand,
0:32.7	that have no connection to reality, because they were never tested,
0:36.4	whereas the same mainstream community is dismissing a subject that is of interest to the public,
0:42.3	and on which we can get data. Something is unhealthy in the current culture of theoretical physics.
0:49.5	This is somewhere in the skies with Ryan Sprague.
1:20.4	Welcome, everyone, to somewhere in the skies, and today we are joined by professor Avi Loeb.
1:26.4	Avi received a PhD in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
1:33.5	and subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton,
1:38.5	where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics.
1:42.5	In 93, he moved to Harvard University as an assistant professor in the department of astronomy,
1:49.1	where he was tenured three years later. He was also a visiting professor at the Wiseman
1:54.4	Institute of Science, and a secular senior professor by special appointment in the School of Physics
2:01.1	and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University. He is the founder of the Black Hole Institute, a member of
2:08.2	many other organizations, has authored over 700 research articles and has written five books,
2:16.3	the newest of which is the focus of our discussion today. The book is extraterrestrial,
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