Extraterrestrial Languages
Extraterrestrial Languages If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Will…
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Extraterrestrial Languages
If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. 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?
Will they understand? 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? 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