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Probable Impossibilities audiobook
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrator: Christopher Grove
- Category: Essays, Science
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Probable Impossibilities Audiobook Summary
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.
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Probable Impossibilities Full Details
| Narrator | Christopher Grove |
| Length | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Author | Alan Lightman |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593394601 |
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The publisher of the Probable Impossibilities is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: philosophy of biology, history of philosophy, carl zimmer, fundamentals, theory of everything, janna levin, oceanography, marine biology, marine biology books, grandpa gifts from grandchildren, geology books for adults, nerd gifts, ocean, neuroscience gifts, geek gifts, space books for adults, astrophysics books, physics books for adults, physics, science books, innovation, science book, gifts for history buffs, theoretical physics, history, history books, science, science gifts, science gifts for adults, physics book, Science, Essays, Science, Physics, General, Science, History The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Probable Impossibilities is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593394601.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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