Join us as we discuss with Alan Lightman his latest work Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings. The event coincides with the release of the book in paperback.

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, 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

Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab?

Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more; from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.

An Evening with Alan Lightman, Probable Impossibilities