Author : David Whitehouse
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781785787492
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)
Book Synopsis The Alien Perspective by : David Whitehouse
Download or read book The Alien Perspective written by David Whitehouse and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the evolving cosmos, considering how human survival will depend on otherworldly perspectives. In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant future may hold, both for the universe and for ourselves. Given enough time, Whitehouse contends, we must communicate with intelligent aliens whose divergent perspective will transform our understanding of the universe. First contact may even come sooner than we think. We have already transmitted signals towards promising exoplanets. If, say, Gliese 581d harbors life, the return signal could reach us in 2051. Drawing the thread of human consciousness from the cave to the cosmos, the acclaimed author of Apollo 11: The Inside Story charts our future journey to the end of space and time, and considers whether something of humanity could remain at the end of it all.