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Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lightman, Alan P., 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cosmology.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy of mind.
Physics > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.