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Are We Alone? The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe - GENS4014
Science students

 
Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Physics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.science.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Excluded: GENS4001, GENS4003, PHYS1160, PHYS2160, PHYS2170
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

A free-ranging review of all aspects of the mind-boggling question: "Are we alone?". The material will include discussions on the origin and survival of life, current hi-tech searches for radio signals from extra-terrestrials, discoveries of new planetary systems, possible types of life-forms, Einstein's relativity, space-travel, and much more. A team or researchers will present lectures, and often disagree with each other. The controversies and the science behind the disputes will be clearly presented.

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