Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings / Alan Lightman.

By:

Lightman, Alan P, 1948- [author.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 197 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781524749019

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Probable impossibilities.DDC classification:

523.1 LIG 23

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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	Literature books	All India Institute of Speech and Hearing		Stack II 131/5		523.1 LIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			23207

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197).

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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