{"product_id":"the-technologies-in-the-search-richard-murch-9798198497733","title":"The Technologies in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening to the Cosmos","description":"\u003cb\u003eEvery science has its defining moments of apparent breakthrough - the results that set the instrument readings racing, that bring researchers running down corridors, that press the imagination hard against the boundaries of what is possible. SETI is no exception.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the decades since systematic searches began, there have been anomalies, surprises, and candidates that, for hours or days or weeks, could not be dismissed. None has yet crossed the threshold of confirmation. But their stories are not stories of failure. They are stories of a discipline learning, with great discipline, how to be honest with itself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book examines that record. It begins with the one signal that has never been explained - the Wow! signal of 1977, which remains, nearly five decades after it was recorded, the single most compelling candidate in the history of the search. But despite the excitement of Wow! . It did not repeat or since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt then widens into a systematic survey of every significant candidate and false alarm, from the pulsars mistaken for civilisations in 1967 to the James Webb atmospheric anomalies of 2023. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd it closes with a hard look at why verification is so difficult - at the sociology and psychology of a field in which the stakes are so high that even careful scientists occasionally allow hope to run ahead of evidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important question we have ever asked is still open. The instruments are still listening. And the silence, for now, is not an answer. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is an invitation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Murch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198497733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Richard Murch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50593541423359,"sku":"9798198497733","price":26.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-technologies-in-the-search-richard-murch-9798198497733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}