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| 008 | 200621s2021 nyu b 000 0 eng | ||
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_aLightman, Alan P., _d1948- _eauthor. _954201 |
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_aProbable impossibilities : _bmusings on beginnings and endings / _cAlan Lightman. |
| 250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2021] |
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_a197 pages ; _c20 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aProbable 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. | |
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_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_aCosmology. _926736 |
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_aMetaphysics. _944591 |
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_aPhilosophy of mind. _998579 |
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_aPhysics _xPhilosophy. _943341 |
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_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184 |
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