Understanding exactly what life is, how it began and whether it exists beyond our planet may be the greatest challenge of our time (Image: Solent News & Photo Agency/Rex)
WHAT is the biggest question in science? The origin of consciousness? How to combine quantum mechanics with general relativity? These are big, but arguably there’s a bigger one: is there anyone out there?
Understanding exactly what life is, how it began and whether it exists beyond our planet is, I believe, the greatest challenge of our time. Finding alien life would be the most important discovery in history, and the search for…
