Alien civilisation like us ‘extremely rare’ in the universe, says Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox provides a lecture throughout the Stephen Hawking public symposium at Girl Mitchell Corridor in Cambridge. (Credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Earth might be ‘the one place’ within the universe with life types clever sufficient to kind civilisation, Professor Brian Cox has stated.

Whereas microbial life types might effectively be frequent, the physicist believes that ‘issues like us could also be extraordinarily uncommon’.

When requested about US Congressman Andre Carson’s feedback earlier this week that UFOs are ‘a possible nationwide safety risk’ that are ‘actual’ and ‘have to be investigated’, Prof Cox stated it was ‘one of many nice mysteries’ whether or not clever alien life types had discovered their option to Earth.

He stated on BBC One’s Sunday Morning: ‘For those who compelled me to guess, I might say there could also be microbes in every single place, that’s why we’re searching for life on Mars, for instance, however when it comes to intelligence, one factor to consider, the origin of life on Earth, it appears like we have now good proof life was current 3.8 billion years in the past and the primary civilisation to look on Earth was about now, give or take.

‘So it took the most effective a part of 4 billion years to go from the origin of life on Earth to a civilisation.

‘That’s a 3rd of the age of the age of the universe, and that's a very long time, so that will point out that microbes could also be frequent, however issues like us could also be extraordinarily uncommon.’

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Prof Cox added he believed the most important threat to the way forward for humanity is a ‘lack of perspective’.

He stated: ‘I imply, as we started speaking, the concept that we is likely to be the one civilisation, for 1000's and even thousands and thousands of sunshine years, I feel that science, it’s helpful on many ranges, however one of many issues it’s very helpful at is giving us a perspective, which is a wider perspective and truly I don’t assume many people assume – lots of our political leaders perhaps don’t actually assume when it comes to, is it potential that that is the one, let’s say, the one island of which means in a galaxy of 400 billion suns. That issues.

‘I don’t assume that’s some form of whimsical thought. It would focus the thoughts.’