Rüdiger Vaas

Rüdiger Vaas (* 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a German science journalist and has been the full-time editor of the magazine Bild der Wissenschaft for the fields of astronomy and physics since 2000 . He studied biology , German , linguistics and philosophy in Hohenheim , Stuttgart and Tübingen and, as a philosopher, deals with questions of cosmology , natural philosophy , scientific and epistemological theory , neurophilosophy and anthropology .

Vaas is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation . Since 1983, he has regularly contributed accompanying popular science articles and reports to the science fiction series Perry Rhodan , but also to the yearbook Das Science Fiction Jahr . Since 2010 and issue 124, he has been primarily responsible for and as the successor to Hartmut Kasper, the Perry-Rhodan-Journal, a bimonthly supplement to the magazine series. It contains articles with a focus on basic physics , as well as astronomy and cosmology and deals with topics that are close to science fiction, such as particularly promising technology or the search for extraterrestrial life .

Publications

• Simply Einstein ! Ingenious thoughts weightlessly understandable . Franckh Kosmos , 2018.
• Signals of gravity. Gravitational Waves : From Einstein's Insights to the New Era of Astrophysics . Franckh Kosmos, 2017.
• Just hawking ! Ingenious thoughts weightlessly understandable . Franckh-Kosmos, 2016; 3rd edition 2017; 4th edition 2018.
• Beyond Einstein's universe. From the theory of relativity to quantum gravity . Franckh-Kosmos, 2015; 2nd updated and greatly expanded edition 2016; 3rd updated edition 2016; 4th updated edition 2017.
• From the god particle to the world formula . Big Bang , Higgs, antimatter and the mysterious world of shadows . Franckh-Kosmos, 2013; 2nd updated edition 2014.
• (As "Rudy" Vaas co-editor with Laura Mersini-Houghton of) The Arrows of Time . A Debate in Cosmology . Springer, 2012.
• Hawking's cosmos simply explained. From the big bang to the black holes . Franckh-Kosmos, 2011; 2nd edition 2011.
• Hawking's new universe. How the Big Bang came about . Franckh-Kosmos, 2008; 5th updated edition 2010; 6th updated edition 2018 (2nd edition) as paperback; Piper Pocket Book 2010; 3rd updated edition 2011; 4th edition 2012.
• (Co-author with Michael Blume von) God, Genes and the Brain. Why Faith Works - The Evolution of Religiosity . Hirzel , 2009; 2nd edition 2009; 3rd edition 2012.
• Brave new neuro-world. The Future of the Brain - Interventions, Explanations and Ethics . Hirzel, 2008.
• Tunnel through space and time. Einstein's legacy - black holes, time travel and faster than light . Franckh-Kosmos, 2005; 2nd updated edition 2006; greatly expanded new edition 2010, 4th updated edition 2010; expanded and updated paperback edition 2012, 6th updated edition 2013, 7th edition 2015, 8th edition 2018.
• (Co-author with Günter Stoll von) Searching for traces in Indian country . Hirzel, 2001. ISBN 978-3-7776-0939-3
• (Co-author of) Lexicon of Neurosciences . Spectrum Academic Publishing House , 2000/2001 (four volumes).
• Death came from space. Meteorite strikes , the Earth's orbit cruisers and the demise of the dinosaurs . Franckh Kosmos, 1995.
• The genetic code. Evolution and self-organized optimization, deviations and targeted change . Scientific publishing company , 1994.
• Contributions to the yearbook Das Science-Fiction Jahr ( Heyne ).
• Many other publications, in particular on cosmology, astronomy, basic physics, philosophy of science, natural philosophy (in particular: philosophical cosmology), philosophy of mind (mind- body problem , free will , neurophilosophy), anthropology and neuroscience .

Fiction

• Chaos im Prokyon Sector , Terra Astra , Volume 638, Moewig , 1985. (also contains the short story The Two Day War )
• Die Saat der Sterne , short story in: Die Medo-Nomaden by Uwe Anton , Heyne, Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-453-52387-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Vaas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rüdiger Vaas in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Vaas, Rüdiger at SPIRES
• Rüdiger Vaas . In: arXiv.org
• Rüdiger Vaas in PhilPapers
• Rüdiger Vaas in Perrypedia

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1. ↑ https://www.giordano-bruno-stiftung.de/aufbau/beirat?page=4
2. ↑ Perry-Rhodan.net: Rüdiger Vaas - specialist in cosmology , Pabel-Moewig Rastatt. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
3. ↑ Michelle Stern in conversation with Rüdiger Vaas: Three questions , in: Perry Rhodan, Volume 3005, Wiege der Menschheit , Pabel-Moewig Rastatt, March 22, 2019.