"VIDYA JOTHI NALIN CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE FIMA, FRAS, FRSA (BORN 20 JANUARY 1939) IS PROFESSOR AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY AND HONORARY PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM. HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUCKINGHAM CENTRE FOR ASTROBIOLOGY. BORN AND EDUCATED IN SRI LANKA, HE CURRENTLY LIVES IN CARDIFF, WALES, UK."
IT IS NOT OFTEN SCIENTISTS ARE WILLING TO OPENLY DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
According to a famous astronomy professor there is a reason why a majority of scientists avoid the subject - it is censored!
Even though the general public embraces ideas of extraterrestrial life, science is expected to shun this subject no matter how strong the evidence, albeit through a conspiracy of silence.
It is an unwritten doctrine of science that extraterrestrial life could not exist in our immediate vicinity, or, that if such life did exist, it could not have a connection with Earth.
PROFESSOR N. CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE WAS BORN IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, ON JANUARY 20, 1939.
He studied astrophysics at Cambridge, where he was a student of Hoyle's.
He received his Ph.D. in 1963 and an Sc.D. in 1973, and served on the faculty at Cambridge. He is now a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at the University College, Cardiff, Wales. He is an expert in the use of infrared astronomy to study interstellar matter.
"My own personal involvement in this matter dates back to the 1970's when, together with the late Fred Hoyle, I was investigating the nature of interstellar dust.
At this time evidence for organic molecules in interstellar clouds was accumulating at a rapid pace, and the interstellar dust grains that were hitherto believed to be comprised of inorganic ices were shown by us to contain complex organic polymers of possible biological provenance.
These discoveries came as a surprise to astronomers, and for a long time the conclusion was resisted that such molecules might have a relevance to life on the Earth," says professor Wickramasinghe.
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe were among the first scientists to make a connection between complex organic molecules in interstellar clouds and life on Earth.
"My first inkling of any censorship relating to extraterrestrial life came when we made the intellectual leap from prebiology in space to fully-fledged biology outside the Earth.
In setting out to explore the hypothesis that interstellar grains were not just abiotic organic polymers but bacterial cells in various stages of degradation, we made a prediction that interstellar dust in the infrared spectral region must have the signature of bacteria.
Infrared sources near the galactic centre were a prime target for this investigation and on our instigation approaches were made to the Anglo-Australian telescope committees to provide time on the AAT to test our seemingly wild hypothesis.
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