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Alan Lightman on Our Obligation to Record the Majesty of the Cosmos

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the
First Draft Podcast
March 15, 2021
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin,
First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.
This week on
Probable Impossibilities, out now from Pantheon Books.
From the episode:
Alan Lightman: Most biologists agree on the properties of a thing that deems it alive, but I think that that raises all kinds of philosophical and theological questions. I have a very good friend Micha Greenstein, who’s a rabbi in Memphis, Tennessee; I asked him this question about how he would regard an organism that was created from scratch. And h ....

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Pondering the unknowable

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In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble, using data from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, found that the universe is expanding. This was “probably the most important cosmic discovery of all time,” writes Alan Lightman in his new book, “Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings.” Certainly it is among the most thought-provoking.
Hubble’s discovery complicates how we grasp space and time. Can you picture a universe that expands infinitely? And if it is expanding, it must have had a starting point in time. But what existed before that, and how did things get started? ....

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