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Searching For Stars on an Island in Maine (Hardcover)
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As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific
view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own
laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of the
universe, which is governed by a small number of disembodied forces
and laws. Those laws decree that all things in the world are
material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at
the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the
overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger
than himself - a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something
absolute and immaterial. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
is the result of these seemingly contradictory impulses, written as
an extended meditation on an island in Maine, where Lightman and
his wife spend their summers. Framing the dialogue between religion
and science as a contrast between absolutes and relatives, Lightman
explores our human quest for truth and meaning and the different
methods of religion and science in that quest. Along the way, he
draws from sources ranging from St. Augustine's conception of
absolute truth to Einstein's relativity, from a belief in the
divine and eternal nature of stars to their discovered materiality
and mortality, from the unity of the once indivisible atom to the
multiplicity of subatomic particles and the recent notion of
multiple universes. What emerges is not only an understanding of
the encounter between science and religion but also a profound
exploration of the complexity of human existence.
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