TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehouse,David
TI  - The alien perspective: a new view of humanity and the cosmos 
SN  - 9781785787492
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Icon Books
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Life on other planets
KW  - Interstellar communication
N1  - Includes index; A question asked differently -- The big sky -- Jig of life -- The cosmic cave -- Speak to me -- Palimpest -- Ripples -- Emissary -- Hello Earth -- Us and them -- Arbitrage -- The great gig in the sky -- Boltzmann's brain -- As far as thought can reach
N2  - 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 harbours life, the return signal could reach us in 2051. Drawing the thread of human consciousness from the cave to the cosmos, Whitehouse 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
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