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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author.     Subjects     Cosmology.     Metaphysics.     Philosophy of mind.     Physics -- Philosophy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author.       by title:      Probable impossibili...         MARC Display

Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings / Alan Lightman. by Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] Subjects Cosmology.   Metaphysics.   Philosophy of mind.   Physics -- Philosophy. ISBN:  9781524749019 (hardcover) : 152474901X (hardcover) : Description:  197 pages : illustration ; 20 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Probable impossibilities -- Between nothingness and infinity -- What came before the big bang? -- On nothingness -- Atoms -- Modern Prometheus -- One hundred billion -- Smile -- The anatomy of attention -- Immortality -- The ghost house of my childhood -- In defense of disorder -- Miracles -- Our lonely home in nature -- Is life special? -- Cosmic biocentrism -- The man who knows infinity. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting element behind consciousness, the origin of life, the anatomy of a smile, our fickle memories. Probable Impossibilities brings together recently published and four original essays. Throughout, Lightman guides a discussion on what we know of the universe, life, the mind, and the conception of things vastly larger than ourselves in time and space"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 523.1 Li Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 523.1 Li Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 523.1 Li Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 523.1 Li Checked out 05/18/2024 Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 523.1 Li Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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