The Resource Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings, Alan Lightman
Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings, Alan Lightman
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The item Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings, Alan Lightman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- 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."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 197 pages
- Contents
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- Probable 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
- Isbn
- 9781524749019
- Label
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings
- Title
- Probable impossibilities
- Title remainder
- musings on beginnings and endings
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Lightman
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lightman, Alan P.
- Dewey number
- 523.1
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QB981
- LC item number
- .L544 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cosmology
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of mind
- Physics
- Label
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings, Alan Lightman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Probable 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
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 197 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524749019
- Lccn
- 2020013914
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1161997924
- Label
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings, Alan Lightman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Probable 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
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 197 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524749019
- Lccn
- 2020013914
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1161997924
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