‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond earth, leading space scientist says | Space

“It is another example of our pride to assume otherwise.

British astronaut lady AdeRin-PocockThose who will do the royal Christmas lecture this year said that although science has made giant leaps in our space, including the huge size of the universe, there is still a lot to learn – not less if we were alone.

“My answer to that, based on the numbers, no, we cannot be,” said Adyer Bokuk. “This is the human perception again that we are so busy that we may think that we are alone.”

This is not the only distinguished question.

“The fact that we only know nearly 6 % of the universe at this stage is a little embarrassing,” she says, noting that the vast majority of the universe is made of dark energy and dark materials – mysterious materials that we still do not understand.

This variation in the amazing disclosure and the unanswered minutes is that Aderin-Pocock is caused by the lack of attention in 2025 Royal Foundation Christmas Lectures – A prominent series of public talks started by the chemist and physicist Michael Faradai in 1825.

She said: “This feeling of wonder and exploration, and the feeling that there is a lot to discover it,” stressing the scientific progress, not the moment of Yorca after the next, but a journey in which some theories fall on the side of the road while others are taken more.

As Aderin-Pocock notes, the idea that the Earth is present in the center of the universe-which was defended by the philosopher Aristotle-continued centuries ago before it turned, while Henrita Swan Levitt’s work in the nineteenth century that gave astronomers a way to understand the universe scale.

Adirin Bokuk said, adding that the astronomer Edward Hubble, then showed that the universe expanded, while the Hubble Space Telescope later revealed that he “showed that the universe stretched,” then suddenly we realized that we were much more important than we thought that, “while the Hubble Space Telescope of his name later there is about 200 billion galaxies there.

This is a big year for Royal FoundationAnd a sign of the second place for three Varadai victories: Christmas lectures, the discovery of gasoline and evening letters on Friday – which are now given once a month as RI letters and not always Friday.

As a result, the organization launches a year -old celebration called Discover200, which will include a letter on candlesticks and entertainment for previous lectures, a new illustration and the issuance of all the Christmas lectures chain that was filmed in the past on YouTube. In addition, the royal establishment asks the public to share their memories in the attendance of Christmas lectures and RI speeches.

The past will also appear in Christmas lectures, with Aderin-Pocock contemplating the corporate archives of the sections of previous years, including American astronomical lectures Karl Sagan, to explore how our space has changed.

The key between missions that challenge the current theories are James Web space Telescope (JWST), which was launched on Christmas 2021. With its 18-piece huge mirror, the telescope was produced like a time machine, where light was captured from remote galaxies that-because light travels at a limited speed-when the universe is still small.

“One of the things he discovers is that the galaxies seem greater than what we expected in the early universe,” said Adirin Bokuk. This discovery received a set of questions, including whether physics laws are fixed and whether the dark matter is really present.

For Aderin-Pocock, JWST is character: I worked on one of its well-known tools As a nearby infrared spectrum.

but The task faces budget discounts of up to 20 % – This is in front of the US Department of Government (DOGE), which is supervised by technical businessman Elon Musk, NASA audits ended.

For Aderin-Pocock, the role of Musk-is the CEO of Space X-in the agency’s evaluation is a conflict of interests.

“It is a strange situation that must be taken to make musk look at this because you need an independent person, you need a person who has a distance from this. For me, perfectly, a person from a different square, so that they are not caught at all the luggage that we carry when we work in an industry, but bring a new light.” “So the fact that Elon Musk is involved in this, it seems like a bad idea for me.”

Although Aderin-Pocock is excited that the marketing of Space-which is called a “billionaire battle”-can accelerate its dream of traveling to space, the legislation is very important.

She said: “Sometimes the wild West is like as people do what they want there, and without appropriate restrictions, I think we can go into chaos again.” “Once again, if there is an opportunity to benefit from the space for humanity, then let humanity be all.”

However, like Musk, she is keen on missions that are raised on other planets.

She said, “I will not say it is our fate because this seems a little strange, but I think it is our future.” “We live on our planet, and I do not want to look scary, but the planets can be weak.”

As Aderin-Pocock observes, a asteroid surveyed dinosaurs, and while humans are now watching space rocks near Earth, they are not the only possible danger that can determine humanity.

“So I think it makes sense to look there where we may have other colonies, on the moon, on Mars and then after that,” she said.