Show notes
A conversation with physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, polyglot and polymath - Charley Lineweaver.00:00 - My introduction 08:57 - Charley’s fascinating early years12:14 - From an English/History degree to physics13:53 - Charley’s historic work on the Cosmic Microwave Background17:34 - Methods of probing deep space19:51 - Our accelerating universe22:15 - Dark Matter Candidates 23:20 - The Fermi Problem and the “Planet of the Apes” Hypothesis28:37 - Natural experiments in the evolution of intelligence 33:38: What can the early appearance of life on Earth tell us about aliens?37:31: Non-intelligent alien life.38:06: Deep homology and misconceptions about convergent biological evolution 44:31 The Shadow Biosphere 48:53 The significance of extremophiles 50:23 Does life arise from non-life easily or not? What do we know? 53:32 What is life?55:56 A “debate” about people? 1:10:20 - The Potato Radius1:15:00 - What Charley is working on now