The accidental universe: the world you thought you knew

✍ Scribed by Alan Lightman

• Book ID: 100164798
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Blackstone Audio
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 80 KB
• Edition: Unabridged
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1482955997

✦ Synopsis

"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences--old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite expanse of space.

"In this slight volume, Lightman looks toward the universe and captures aspects of it in a series of beautifully written essays, each offering a glimpse at the whole from a different perspective: here time, there symmetry, not least God. It is a meditation by a remarkable humanist-physicist, a book worth reading by anyone entranced by big ideas grounded in the physical world."
--Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University

From the Hardcover edition.