Do Aliens Speak Physics?
And Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality

Informative, imaginative, and fun! The idea of meeting intelligent beings from other stars is truly exciting. We have so much to learn from each other, but how would we communicate? It is hard enough to communicate with people from other countries, much less our cats and dogs. How could we “talk” to......more

Informative, imaginative, and fun! The idea of meeting intelligent beings from other stars is truly exciting. We have so much to learn from each other, but how would we communicate? It is hard enough to communicate with people from other countries, much less our cats and dogs. How could we “talk” to......more

This is a mostly high-level, very accessible and light-hearted discussion of a very interesting and profound question — how universal is the science of physics? Would all intelligent, technological life develop a science of physics like ours? Does reality drive us to our science of physics, or might......more

My thanks to NetGalley and W. W. Norton & Company for an advance copy of this book that seeks to answer questions many of us have thought about if and/or when aliens come to our planet, questions about what aliens might be like, how they communicate, what they eat, and if they find us even worth try......more

This is a fun, thought-provoking book that explores whether our assumptions about alien intelligence actually hold up. We often take it for granted that if an alien civilization can achieve interstellar travel, it must also possess a deep, human-like scientific understanding of the universe—but is t......more