“Can Humans Live Outside Earth? Nobel Prize Recipient Michel Mayor Shares Insights”

Jakarta –

The reality that modern humans are facing is that they are the ones who mess up the Earth and they are also the ones who come up with far-reaching ideas to explore other planets to inhabit.

But, is it possible for humans to live outside the Earth?

Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, discovers the first planet orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.

“If we talk about exoplanets, everything should be clear: We are not going to migrate there,” he was quoted as saying Live Science.

According to him, all known exoplanets or planets outside our solar system are too far away to be explored.

“Even in the very optimistic case of a not-so-distant habitable planet, say a few tens of light years, which isn’t much, being in the neighborhood, the time to go there is quite a lot,” he added.

First Exoplanet Discovered

Mayor is a Nobel Prize laureate along with Didier Queloz for discovering the first exoplanet in October 1995.

Using new instruments at the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France, they detected a gas giant similar to Jupiter, which they named 51 Pegasi b .

Since then, more than 4,000 other exoplanets have been discovered in the Milky Way, but none seem to have been feasible.

Infinite Distance

Another opinion from Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at the University of California at Riverside, is also similar.

According to him, the inescapable reality is that at this point in human history, all the stars are at infinity.

Even to reach the Moon, history records a very hard struggle with various missions.

“We may be able to send people to Mars in the next 50 years, but I would be very surprised if humanity managed to reach Jupiter’s orbit in the next few centuries,” said Kane.

This is because the distance to the nearest star outside the solar system is about 70,000 times greater than the distance to Jupiter. So to say, all the stars are effectively out of reach.

Maybe so far there is indeed a lot that seems out of reach but humans can reach, such as sending planes on intercontinental flights.

But, says Kane, physics is necessary to reach the stars. If there are actually reachable planets that may not yet be known, it may require a fundamental change in the understanding of the relationship between mass, acceleration, and energy.

“We have to take care of our planet, it is very beautiful and still livable.”

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