Overview
- Authored by an expert in communication systems and translation technology
- A fun and rigorous foray into how alien communication would work
- Illustrated with dozens of figures to help readers visualize key concepts
Part of the book series: Astronomers' Universe (ASTRONOM)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- interstellar communication
- extraterrestrial contact
- extraterrestrial communication
- communicating with aliens
- symbolic alien communication
- decoding alien transmission
- alien transmissions
- interpreting alien signal
- outer space signals
- alien language
- alien radio signals
- alien beacons
- extraterrestrial language
- SETI received signals
- METI communication signals
About this book
Scientists have been searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations since Frank Drake’s first radio survey in 1960. But what would actually happen if SETI’s search succeeds? Is there any way we could even make sense of the signal we receive?
Written by an expert in communication systems and translation technology, this book explores the science of interstellar communication. It explains how this process may unfold, how an ET communication link would work, the types of information it could convey and how professionals, amateurs and ordinary people like you would participate in the effort to understand what another civilization has to say.
“Scientists, policy makers,and all interested in the likely future discovery of alien life will want to read this book.”
- Steven J. Dick, Former NASA Chief Historian
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Alien Communication Handbook
Book Subtitle: So We Received a Signal—Now What?
Authors: Brian S. McConnell
Series Title: Astronomers' Universe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74845-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74844-9Published: 19 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74845-6Published: 18 October 2021
Series ISSN: 1614-659X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 299
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrobiology, Science and Technology Studies, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology