It’s no news that NASA and other space exploration organizations are always thinking of ways how humans could migrate to other planets. Apparently, Michel Mayor, the Swiss Nobel laurate, has an opposing opinion on the topic. He clearly said that humans would never be able to migrate to a planet outside the solar system while he was talking on last Sunday. It should be noted that the comment from Michel Mayor is regarding exoplanets and not the planets in the current solar system in which our earth is located. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, his colleague, are the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics this year.
The duo received their Nobel Prize for their contributions that helped in enhancing techniques that are now being used to recognize exoplanets. Considering this, the statement that denies the possibility of expanding humans to exoplanets seems quite serious. “If we are talking about exoplanets, things should be clear: we will not migrate there. These planets are much, much too far away. Even in the very optimistic case of a liveable planet that is not too far, say a few dozen light-years, which is not a lot, it’s in the neighbourhood, the time to go there is considerable,” Mayor was quoted saying by AFP.
He also added that the theories of humans migrating to exoplanets are crazy. Michel Mayor is credited with one of the biggest contributions in the world of space explorations. He was the one who invented a way to confirm the existence of planets that are located outside the solar system. Until this event, which happened in 1995, exoplanets were the mere products of science fiction. The follow-up research Mayor had done on the same along with his colleague earned him the Nobel Prize. He also added that the next generation would be there to find out whether life exists on these exoplanets.
Helene Elliott is the senior reporter for News Raise. She covers Science news. She also has a keen interest in photojournalism. Helene holds a nomination for the prestigious Red Smith Award. She is married to author Dennis D’Agostino, a former publicist with the New York Mets.
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