{"product_id":"probable-impossibilities-musings-on-beginnings-and-endings","title":"Probable Impossibilities Musings on Beginnings and Endings","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein’s Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e tackles \"big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity\u003ci\u003e? \u003c\/i\u003eIs 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?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eProbable Impossibilities \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55699000819785,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/3803063482399.jpg?v=1779472594","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/probable-impossibilities-musings-on-beginnings-and-endings","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}