Book Tour - Janna Levin's Space

Date/Time
Jun 03, 2016
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location
99 Monmouth Street
Count Basie Theater, Red Bank NJ

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Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

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12:04 am · March 7, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

Hanging out with @djspooky for @BrooklynRail Monday 1pm ET. Come hang out with us. And join the Q & A brooklynrail.org/eve… pic.twitter.com/lYlM…

11:26 pm · March 6, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

Very much looking forward to this conversation with the incomparable, prolific Alan Lightman on his new book Probable Impossibilities for the @HarvardBooks twitter.com/pantheon…

5:01 pm · March 1, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

I woke up this morning and still supine, in a tussle with some aggrieved pillows, I watched astronauts on a spacewalk outside the ISS in orbit above me through a black and white feed on NASA TV transmitted to my little hand-held screen. What a world. twitter.com/nasa/sta…

1:51 pm · February 28, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

It’s a gift that the limit of the speed of light allows us to look into the past. If we see light that travelled billions of light-years, we are seeing billions of years into the past. You can only ever see into the past, even if you are looking at the person next to you. twitter.com/SirIronB…

12:23 am · February 27, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

If they were invertebrates, would they not be able to see themselves? Ahhh, and my cocktail arrives. twitter.com/JannaLev…

12:12 am · February 27, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

So, wait, if a certain species of alien evolved eyes that collected X-rays (which frankly would be a biological challenge if made of gooey wet matter, but still), they’d see each other as skeletons.

12:03 am · February 27, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

If life evolved on a dead star, eyes might not be particularly useful. A planet in orbit around a black hole could harbor animals that favor echolocation or other senses. Wild to wonder if these perceptions might translate in alien consciousness to qualia: beauty, shape, depth twitter.com/jannalev…

11:39 pm · February 26, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

Musing about whether or not alien Life would develop eyes. If they do, their light detectors would be tuned to the spectrum of their star. So not likely the same range we see. Now I’m wondering if therefore we’d be invisible to each other.

11:00 pm · February 26, 2021

Janna Levin

@JannaLevin

What are you doing to me @nattyover ? I look away from the standard model of particles for a hot second and when I come back into focus you’ve done something confusing to the proton for chrissake twitter.com/nattyove…

9:25 am · February 25, 2021