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Author : Walter Earl Meyers
Release : 1980
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 878/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aliens and Linguists by : Walter Earl Meyers
Download or read book Aliens and Linguists written by Walter Earl Meyers. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Oberhaus
Release : 2024-05-07
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 64X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Extraterrestrial Languages by : Daniel Oberhaus
Download or read book Extraterrestrial Languages written by Daniel Oberhaus. This book was released on 2024-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Exploring Earthlings' various attempts to reach out to non-Earthlings over the centuries, he poses some not entirely answerable questions: If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? What languages will they (and we) speak? Is there not only a universal grammar (as Noam Chomsky has posited), but also a grammar of the universe? Oberhaus describes, among other things, a late-nineteenth-century idea to communicate with Martians via Morse code and mirrors; the emergence in the twentieth century of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), CETI (communication with extraterrestrial intelligence), and finally METI (messaging extraterrestrial intelligence); the one-way space voyage of Ella, an artificial intelligence agent that can play cards, tell fortunes, and recite poetry; and the launching of a theremin concert for aliens. He considers media used in attempts at extraterrestrial communication, from microwave systems to plaques on spacecrafts to formal logic, and discusses attempts to formulate a language for our message, including the Astraglossa and two generations of Lincos (lingua cosmica). The chosen medium for interstellar communication reveals much about the technological sophistication of the civilization that sends it, Oberhaus observes, but even more interesting is the information embedded in the message itself. In Extraterrestrial Languages, he considers how philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, science, and art have informed the design or limited the effectiveness of our interstellar messaging.
Author : Frederick Dodson
Release : 2020-10-24
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Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Extraterrestrial Linguistics by : Frederick Dodson
Download or read book Extraterrestrial Linguistics written by Frederick Dodson. This book was released on 2020-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using linguistics, this book proves the following: Aliens Are Us.The "Ancient Aliens" you hear about everywhere are not Aliens, they are humans. The origins of all people and cultures is in outer-space, particularly the Pleiades. Planet Earth is a low-frequency realm that has caused us to forget who we are and where we are from. There is a common ancient language of all humanity. This language is best preserved in ancient German. You will learn some of the language that helps you decode and understand many "mysteries": The real purpose of the Pyramids, how Stonehenge was built, the meaning of the Voynich manuscript, why the CIA published books on UFOs in the 1950s, where tales of "fairies" really come from, the names and locations of the stars we come from, why the ancients did interstellar flight at solstice, how ancient astronauts sexually exploited earthlings and many more strange things. All of this information is encoded across the languages of the Aborigines, the Maori, the Basque and Estonian languages, Sanskrit, Hebrew and many more. This is sure to be one of the most unique books you have ever read.
Author : Suzette Haden Elgin
Release : 2013-08-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Native Tongue by : Suzette Haden Elgin
Download or read book Native Tongue written by Suzette Haden Elgin. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.
Author : Tim Andersen
Release : 2020-05-04
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Book Synopsis The Infinite Universe by : Tim Andersen
Download or read book The Infinite Universe written by Tim Andersen. This book was released on 2020-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone who wants a fresh approach to modern physics. Are you tired of amusing anecdotes about scientists' personal lives and eureka moments? Bored of chronological narratives of scientific progress through the ages? No longer wowed by ideas like string theory? Interested in first principles thinking and what it can do for you? This book is for you. This book is designed to take you step by step through the fundamental principles that underlie the physics of space, time, and matter. It is a how-to guide for building up our universe from first principles. By posing questions and answering them with illustrations and examples, the book shows how we can demonstrate what we know about the universe with simple concepts and thought experiments. With this book, you too can apply first principles to build up your own model of the universe and how it works, one you can take with you, and apply it to other areas of your life such as your job, business, even your relationships. There are no complicated mathematics in this book and I have minimized the amount of jargon. Thus, it is suitable anyone of any educational background from high school on. The book aims to be straightforward about how we get from simple ideas to complex physical theories. So, if you are interested in a new way of looking at the universe and are not afraid to unlearn some of what you have learned, take a look inside.
