Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings -- Alan Lightman

<b>The acclaimed author of <i>Einstein's Dreams</i> tackles big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>) 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.</b> <p/> Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity<i>? </i>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? <p/> Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom <i>The Washington Post </i>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. <p/> <i>Probable Impossibilities </i>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Alan Lightman<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 04/19/2022<br><b>Pages:</b> 208<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780593081327