Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Lightman, Alan

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the...
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Author: Alan Lightman
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Lightman, Alan

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

€35,95

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

€35,95
Author: Alan Lightman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between.

Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab?

Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called "the poet laureate of science writers," explores these questions and more--from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.

Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 02/09/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781524749019


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2020
Booklist 12/01/2020 pg. 20

About the Author
ALAN LIGHTMAN is the author of six novels, including the international best seller Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.

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