The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew by Alan Lightman - October 2014

New York: Vintage, October 2014. Trade Paperback. 6th printing. Fine. Small chip to rear corner of spine tail, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 157 pages.

With passion and curiosity, Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws. Behind all of these considerations is the suggestion--at once haunting and exhilarating--that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole.