The Science of UFOs
An Astronomer Examines the Technology of Alien Spacecraft, How They Travel, and the Aliens Who Pilot Them
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Publisher Description
What if UFOs are real?
Where could they be from, and how could they have traveled here? What advanced technology must they possess to execute the fantastic maneuvers they are routinely reported to make?
Astronomer William R. Alshuler takes a fascinating look at the reported attributes of UFOs through the lens of known science and physics and explains how they might be doing the weird and incredible things they are known to do.
Along the way, he examines the possibilities and problems of traveling faster than light, interdimensionally, and via teleportation, as well as the veracity of UFO reports, insights into potential alien motives, and alien biochemistry.
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Have aliens visited Earth? Did the government conspire to cover up a UFO crash at Roswell, N.Mex.? Astronomer Alschuler (UFOs and Aliens)--while allowing for the possible existence of life elsewhere in our galaxy--remains skeptical that aliens have touched down on Earth. With a child's enthusiasm for the fantastic and a scientist's eye for detail, the author examines the science of alien technologies reported by eyewitnesses and featured in various media. Several reports, for example, suggest that aliens travel in silent, rapidly accelerating saucers. Applying the law of inertia, however, the author notes that extreme acceleration would exert a crushing pressure on alien passengers. In addition, since solid objects generate pressure waves as they move through a substance such as air, silent saucers are implausible. Other reports from abductees suggest that aliens can travel from the star Vega to Earth in a little over a day, an unlikely feat that Alschuler asserts would be possible only if the aliens had access to a tunnel through space (a highly unstable passage commonly known as a "worm hole") or the ability to bend space using a warp drive (which requires as much energy as the sun will radiate over its lifetime). Although Alschuler's analysis seems at times like an introductory physics text as it delves into the quantum mechanics and physics of prospective alien technologies, readers will appreciate his objective, fact-based analysis of a range of purported extraterrestrial phenomena.
