【英語で読む日経サイエンス】2015年5月号「生命の理想郷 スーパーアース」｜日経サイエンスSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN January 2015 Better Than Earth 生命の理想郷 スーパーアース Do we inhabit the best of all possible worlds? German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz thought so, writing in 1710 that our planet, warts and all, must be the most optimal one imaginable. Leibniz’s idea was roundly scorned as unscientific wishful thinking, most notably by French author Voltaire in his magnum opus, Candide. Yet Leibni
