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Alan Lightman
Probable Impossibilities
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness .
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Alan Lightman
Song of Two Worlds
In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After decades of living "hung like a dried fly," emptied and haunted by his past, the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find something to believe in, first turning to the world of science and then to the world of philosophy, religion, and human life.
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Alan Lightman
In Praise of Wasting Time
In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks.
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Ramona Kaulitzki
Isabel and the Invisible World
A story about the hidden world of light.
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David Kaiser
Alan Lightman
Quantum Legacies
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates.
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