Science & engineering
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
By Alan Lightman, professor of the practice of the humanities in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Pantheon · 2021
From the acclaimed author of "Einstein's Dreams" comes 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.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.
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