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Through the acclaimed writer of Einstein's Dreams and Mr. g comes a deep breathing on the surprising ways in which recent scientific conclusions have shaped our knowledge of ourselves and our place in the cosmos. With all the current passion, interest, and specific yet lyrical prose which have marked his past books, Alan Lightman here explores the psychological and philosophical questions increased by discoveries in research, concentrating most intently on the real human condition and the needs of humankind. He talks about the difficult dialogue between research and faith, the turmoil between our real human desire to have permanence and the impermanence of dynamics, the possibility our universe is merely an accident, the manner in which modern tools has separated us from direct experience of the world, and our level of resistance to the view our bodies and heads can be discussed by scientific reasoning and laws and regulations. And behind many of these considerations is the suggestion - at once haunting and exhilarating - that what we see and understand of the world is merely a tiny piece of the astonishing, perhaps unfathomable whole.
