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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duração: 5 horas e 45 minutos
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Sinopse
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.
Resumo da Crítica
“Lightman has two gifts that stand out. One is for analogy.... In isolation, physics can get pretty weird at its extremes, but Lightman makes it seem familiar and accessible.... His other gift involves bridging the scientific and the personal.... Savvy...Probable Impossibilities stands as a beautiful argument against the old Romantic-era notion that science kills wonder. In the hands of Lightman, science only multiplies it.” (American Scholar)
“His latest collection of essays, [has a] syncretic spirit, tackling big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness, always in an entertaining and easily digestible way.... Consistently thought-provoking.” (Wall Street Journal)
“Lightman’s awe about the physical world is infectious. He speaks with the authority of a scientist, specifically a former Harvard astrophysicist, and the eloquence of a novelist.... Probable Impossibilities offers a primer on many of modern science’s most mind-blowing discoveries, incorporating profiles of scientists performing cutting-edge research. Lightman weaves his own story and voice though the book.” (Publishers Weekly)