Probable Impossibilities, Lightman, Alan

Автор: Lightman, Alan
Название: Einstein`s Dreams
ISBN: 140007780X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400077809
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Автор: Lightman, Alan
Название: Probable Impossibilities
ISBN: 0593081323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593081327
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Alan Lightman
Название: The Diagnosis
ISBN: 0747556644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747556640
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 5930.00 T
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Описание: One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a mental nightmare. With no conclusive medical answers, his wife thinks he is imagining it, while his colleagues are oblivious to his suffering.