Extraterrestrial Life

Antonino Del Popolo graduated from the University of Bologna in 1990 with a grade of 110/110 cum laude, defending a thesis on General Relativity. He obtained his doctorate in 1994, defending a thesis on the cold dark matter model. He worked as a researcher at the CRL Institute (NICT) in Tokyo (1998-1999), Bosphorus University in Istanbul (2000-2005), the Feza Gursey Institute in Istanbul (2001-2003), and the Argelander Institute in Bonn (2008-2009). He was a Full Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008, he has been an adjunct professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Catania.  He has been "visiting professor" in several Universities around the world, like the  University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), the International Institute of Physics (IIP) of Natal (Brazil),  the IMP-CAS of Lanzhou (China), where he also obtained the PIFI prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Sofia S. K. Ohridsky University and the Institute of Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences. Among his publications, apart the around 200 scientific papers,  are The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Origin and End of the Universe, World Scientific, which was translated and published in Russian and Italian,  God or Science. Is Science Denying God?, World Scientific, translated and published in Italian, and The big ideas of science, World Scientific.

• Introduction.- Children Of The Stars.- Towards Complexity.- Are We Extraterrestrials?.- Life On Earth.- Life In The Wanderers Of Sky.- The Universe And Life.- The New Worlds.- Is There Life On Extrasolar Planets?.- Carbon Chauvinism?.- Where Is Everybody?.- The Great Silence (Searching For Et).- We Are Not Alone.- Epilogue.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.