Imaginary Life. A Journey in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Beings, and Supergravity Animals

What will alien life look like when humanity discovers it in distant worlds? Professors of physics and astronomy Trefil and Summers invite readers to embark on an imaginary journey through distant galaxies and exoplanets — watery, with ultra-low temperatures, with increased gravity. What kinds of life are possible there? Under what conditions? How will they evolve? To build their hypotheses, the authors use the most modern scientific data, and they also provide humorous arguments to support or refute their versions. And, most intriguingly, reality may prove to be much stranger than fiction…