Author: Guillermo Gonzalez
Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe
The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place.
Recommended Reading: A Handbook of the Big Bang
Perhaps the publisher, Cambridge University Press, thought the title might help sales with a younger, hipper generation.
Is Space Travel Our Destiny?
I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths.
Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection
In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design.
What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life
It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life.