ContactSimon and Schuster, 1997 - 434 pages In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own. |
Contents
PARTI THE MESSAGE | 1 |
Transcendental Numbers | 3 |
Coherent Light | 15 |
White Noise | 39 |
Prime Numbers | 59 |
Decryption Algorithm | 73 |
Palimpsest | 89 |
The Ethanol in W3 | 109 |
Babylon | 211 |
Harmonic Oscillator | 231 |
Erbium Dowel | 253 |
The Elders of Ozone | 277 |
The Dream of the Ants | 295 |
Superunification | 309 |
THE GALAXY | 325 |
Naked Singularity | 327 |
Random Access | 125 |
The Numinous | 143 |
THE MACHINE | 155 |
Precession of the Equinoxes | 157 |
The World Message Consortium | 175 |
The OneDelta Isomer | 197 |
Grand Central Station | 343 |
Causality | 373 |
Gilgamesh | 393 |
Reprogramming | 401 |
The Artists Signature | 423 |
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