EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVIDENCE! Avi Loeb 3/29/23

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at HarvardUniversity and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall StreetJournal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received aPhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative(1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute forAdvanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including mostrecently, Extraterrestrial, and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 122 and i10-index of 557) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, thesearch for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the Director ofthe Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and also serves as the Head of the GalileoProject (2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard'sDepartment of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard's BlackHole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts& Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy ofAstronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President's Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST) at the White House, a former chair of the Board onPhysics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a currentmember of the Advisory Board for "Einstein: Visualize the Impossible" of the HebrewUniversity. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough StarshotInitiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiativesof the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as oneof the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb's commentaries oninnovation and diversity. Personal website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support.