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001			on1263340567
003			OCoLC
005			20220427090727.0
008			210811s2022 nyu b 000 0 eng d
040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _dBDX _dNFG
020			_a0593081323
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035			_a(OCoLC)1263340567
092			_a523.1 _bL724
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLightman, Alan P. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aProbable impossibilities : _bmusings on beginnings and endings / _cAlan Lightman.
250			_aFirst Vintage Books edition.
260			_aNew York : _bVINTAGE, _c2022.
300			_a197 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aCosmology. _926736
650		0	_aMetaphysics. _944591
650		0	_aPhilosophy of mind. _998579
650		0	_aPhysics _xPhilosophy. _943341
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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