The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages
From the author of the bestselling science book Cosmic Wonder comes a second collection of ways to have an existential crisis. Nathan Hellner-Mestelman takes us right back to the Big Bang, then hurls us through cosmic history as we discover how to cook up galaxies, solar systems, and eventually life. From molecules to modern society, this book will take you through every reason we're alive in this universe, complemented by every cosmic force trying to kill us. Why haven't we found alien life yet? Perhaps that's a telltale sign we'd better watch out for ourselves. The cultures of our world may clash, but there's one single language that's governing everything in the cosmos, from the fabric of spacetime to the ripples in your soup, from the cells in your body and even to the simple reason why people are such jerks sometimes. That's the language of math—and it hammers in one undeniable fact: we've got more in common than first meets the eye. Come along for a maddening cosmic adventure in The Language of the Stars!
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The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages
From the author of the bestselling science book Cosmic Wonder comes a second collection of ways to have an existential crisis. Nathan Hellner-Mestelman takes us right back to the Big Bang, then hurls us through cosmic history as we discover how to cook up galaxies, solar systems, and eventually life. From molecules to modern society, this book will take you through every reason we're alive in this universe, complemented by every cosmic force trying to kill us. Why haven't we found alien life yet? Perhaps that's a telltale sign we'd better watch out for ourselves. The cultures of our world may clash, but there's one single language that's governing everything in the cosmos, from the fabric of spacetime to the ripples in your soup, from the cells in your body and even to the simple reason why people are such jerks sometimes. That's the language of math—and it hammers in one undeniable fact: we've got more in common than first meets the eye. Come along for a maddening cosmic adventure in The Language of the Stars!
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The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

The Language of the Stars: The Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

Overview

From the author of the bestselling science book Cosmic Wonder comes a second collection of ways to have an existential crisis. Nathan Hellner-Mestelman takes us right back to the Big Bang, then hurls us through cosmic history as we discover how to cook up galaxies, solar systems, and eventually life. From molecules to modern society, this book will take you through every reason we're alive in this universe, complemented by every cosmic force trying to kill us. Why haven't we found alien life yet? Perhaps that's a telltale sign we'd better watch out for ourselves. The cultures of our world may clash, but there's one single language that's governing everything in the cosmos, from the fabric of spacetime to the ripples in your soup, from the cells in your body and even to the simple reason why people are such jerks sometimes. That's the language of math—and it hammers in one undeniable fact: we've got more in common than first meets the eye. Come along for a maddening cosmic adventure in The Language of the Stars!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773901718
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
Publication date: 03/29/2025
Pages: 150
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is an avid writer and science communicator. Now 17, he is the author of Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe (LLP, 2024). A contributor to Sky's Up and the former SkyNews magazine, he enjoys sharing our place in the universe with the public. As a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, he does outreach at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. His work has been featured in the Lonely Planet Anthology, Physics World Magazine, and Math Horizons. His recent award-winning film, Universe Versus You, has been screened at international film festivals. He lives in Victoria, B.C.

Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is an avid writer and science communicator. Now 17, he is the author of Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe (LLP, 2024). A contributor to Sky's Up and the former SkyNews magazine, he enjoys sharing our place in the universe with the public. As a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, he does outreach at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. His work has been featured in the Lonely Planet Anthology, Physics World Magazine, and Math Horizons. His recent award-winning film, Universe Versus You, has been screened at international film festivals. He lives in Victoria, B.C.

Table of Contents

1. The Fermi paradox of alien life
The origin of life in the universe
Life right after the Big Bang
Dark-Forest theory

2. Entropy, as a concept in physics
Life as a catalyst for entropy

3. The future of human civilization

4. Emergence, a concept in evolution
Social identity theory
Evolution of the human mind

5. The future of human civilization
The kardashev scale
Dyson spheres, megastructures
How to survive a dying universe

6. Mathematical patterns in nature
The bifurcation diagram
Special relativity effects
Quantum waves
Some chaos theory.
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