A document on "the possibility of extraterrestrial life" written by Winston Churchill

ByRegina DiSpade

I served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and led the country to victoryWinston ChurchillThere are documents that wrote about the universe and extraterrestrials, never before ever happened to the world. Because this document which existence was forgotten for many years was discovered by the director of the National Churchill Museum, I understood what the content is.

Winston Churchill's essay on alien life found: Nature News & amp; Comment
http://www.nature.com/news/winston-churchill-s-essay-on-alien-life-found-1.21467

Winston Churchill's views on aliens revealed in lost essay - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38985425

Churchill, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, was a writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature but also has great interest in science, not only regularly visiting scientists, but also Britain It is also known as the prime minister who hired scientific advisors for the first time.

Churchill wrote an essay on popular science in 1939, the year after 1938 when the radio program Mercury Broadcast Theater broadcast the story "Mars had invaded" and panicked the world. The draft of the manuscript was written on 11 pages and was written with the intention of being issued as a newspaper article, but no articles were issued as the Second World War broke out. After that, although the manuscript was revised in 1950, the existence was forgotten for a long time without actually going out to the world.

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And in 2016, at the National Churchill Museum in Missouri, USA, the manuscript written by Churchill was rediscovered by Timothy Riley, who was newly chief director. And Mr. Riley showed a manuscript titled "Awe we Alone in the Universe?" (We are one in the universe?) "To Mario Livio, astrophysicist, so Livio gave Nature That is why I wrote an article about Churchill 's essay.

Churchill's idea includes many things being discussed in space biology as of 2017, and "Copernicus that human beings on Earth are not unique and extraterrestrial life exists" It seems that he had an idea based on the principle. As Churchill defines the life form, it is "to propagate and proliferate" and it is said to be "need water" to live.

In the essay, it is considered an environment suitable for the creation of life in the universe "Gordy Rocks Zone"Temperature is indispensable for the existence of life" Water temperature exists between boiling point and frost point "It is written. Also, as the temperature gets higher, the movement of the molecule becomes faster, and as a result the molecule escapes from the star, Churchill thought that strong gravity is necessary to keep the gas in the stars for a long time . From these facts, it is the Earth, Mars and Venus that can exist life in the solar system, and we are leading the hypothesis that there is no creatures in Mercury and the moon.

Also,Extrasolar planetIs discovered more than 50 years ago, Churchill was thinking about the possibility of having stars other than the sun with multiple planets. And if there are lives in these world stars, "Planet keeps moderate size to keep water surface and atmospheric layer", "moderate from the center star to maintain proper temperature" I will have a distance. "

Furthermore, it is predicted that "Someday, in the not far future, we may be able to travel to the moon, Venus, Mars." On the other hand, it is also pointed out that interstellar travel is inherently difficult as five light years away from nearest stars.

The essay is a strange thing that "there are hundreds of thousands of nebulae each having hundreds of" suns ", but the number of planets where life can not exist is strange" We are not very impressed by the civilization we have made here, we are only one point in the vast universe with "living and thinking" living organisms, and we have a lot of time and space It is the high spirit that appeared inside and the creatures that developed, "and concludes with the word.

ByAlejandro Saez