In The Accidental Universe, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman
explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by
discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human
condition and the needs of humankind. Here, in a collection of
exhilarating essays, Lightman shows us our own universe from a
series of fascinating and diverse perspectives. He takes on the
difficult dialogue between science and religion; the conflict
between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of
nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident;
the manner in which modern technology has divorced us from enjoying
a direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view
that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and
laws alone. With his customary passion, precision, lyricism and
imagination, in The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman leaves us
with the suggestion - heady and humbling - that what we see and
understand of the world and ourselves is only a tiny piece of the
extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole. Praise for Alan
Lightman: '...a gem of a novel that is strange witty erudite and
alive with Lightman's playful genius.' Junot Diaz. 'It would not
seem possible for Alan Lightman to match his earlier tour de force,
Einstein's Dreams, but in Mr g he has done so - with wit,
imagination, and transcendent beauty.' Anita Desai.
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