SEARCHING FOR STARS ON AN ISLAND IN MAINE

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, here is an inspires, lyrical meditation on religion and science that explores the te nsion between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. As a teenager experiment ing in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of a universe governed by a small number of disembodied for ces and l...[Read more]