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Maccone, Claudio |
Evo-SETI |
I08629 |
2020 |
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Maccone, Claudio |
Mathematical SETI |
I08139 |
2012 |
eBook |
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Maccone, Claudio |
Deep Space Flight and Communications |
I08127 |
2009 |
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| Title | Evo-SETI : Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets |
| Author(s) | Maccone, Claudio |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | LVII, 837 p. 278 illus., 244 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled. It presents a mathematical description that can be used not only for the full evolution of life on Earth from RNA to modern human societies, but also the possible evolution of life on exoplanets, thus leading to SETI, the current Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. The main premise underlying this mathematical theory is that the Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) can be applied as a key stochastic process to model the evolution of life. In the resulting Evo-SETI Theory, the life of any living thing (a cell, an animal, a human, a civilization of humans, or even an ET civilization) is represented by a b-lognormal, i.e., a lognormal probability density function starting at a precise instant (b, birth) then increasing up to a peak time, then decreasing to senility time and then continuing as a straight line down to the time of death. Using this theory, Claudio Maccone arrives at remarkable hypotheses on the development of life and civilizations, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and when computers will take over the reins from us humans (Singularity). The book develops the mathematical Evo-SETI Theory by integrating a set of articles that the author has published in various journals on Astrobiology and Astronautical Research |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030519315 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTROBIOLOGY
4. ASTRONAUTICS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Evolutionary Biology
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| Title | Mathematical SETI : Statistics, Signal Processing, Space Missions |
| Author(s) | Maccone, Claudio |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. |
| Description | LII, 724 p. 109 illus., 49 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book introduces the Statistical Drake Equation where, from a simple product of seven positive numbers, the Drake Equation is turned into the product of seven positive random variables. The mathematical consequences of this transformation are demonstrated and it is proven that the new random variable N for the number of communicating civilizations in the Galaxy must follow the lognormal probability distribution when the number of factors in the Drake equation is allowed to increase at will. Mathematical SETI also studies the proposed FOCAL (Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens) space mission to the nearest Sun Focal Sphere at 550 AU and describes its consequences for future interstellar precursor missions and truly interstellar missions. In addition the author shows how SETI signal processing may be dramatically improved by use of the Karhunen-Lo??ve Transform (KLT) rather than Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Finally, he describes the efforts made to persuade the United Nations to make the central part of the Moon Far Side a UN-protected zone, in order to preserve the unique radio-noise-free environment for future scientific use |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642274374 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. IMAGE PROCESSING
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. SIGNAL PROCESSING
9. Signal, Image and Speech Processing
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
12. Speech processing systems
13. Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
14. Statistics??
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| Title | Deep Space Flight and Communications : Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens |
| Author(s) | Maccone, Claudio |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. |
| Description | XXXIV, 402 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The majority of books dealing with prospects for interstellar flight tackle the problem of the propulsion systems that will be needed to send a craft on an interstellar trajectory. The proposed book looks at two other, equally important aspects of such space missions, and each forms half of this two part book. Part 1 looks at the ways in which it is possible to exploit the focusing effect of the Sun as a gravitational lens for scientific missions to distances of 550 AU and beyond into interstellar space. The author explains the mechanism of the Sun as a gravitational lens, the scientific investigations which may be carried out along the way to a distance of 550 AU (and at the 550 AU sphere itself), the requirements for exiting the Solar System at the highest speed and a range of project ideas for missions entering interstellar space. Part 2 of the book deals with the problems of communicating between an interstellar spaceship and the Earth, especially at very high speeds. Here the author assesses a range of mathematical tools relating to the Karhunen-Lo??ve Transform (KLT) for optimal telecommunications, technical topics that may one day enable humans flying around the Galaxy to keep in contact with the Earth. This part of the book opens with a summary of the author???s 2003 Pe??ek Lecture presented at the IAC in Bremen, which introduces the concept of KLT for engineers and ???newcomers??? to the subject. It is planned to include a DVD containing the full mathematical derivations of the KLT for those interested in this important mathematical tool whilst the text itself will contain the various results without outlines of the mathematical proofs. Astronautical engineers will thus be able to see the application of the results without getting bogged down in the mathematics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540729433 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
6. ASTROPHYSICS
7. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
8. EBOOK
9. EBOOK - SPRINGER
10. GRAVITATION
11. SPACE SCIENCES
12. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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