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#1 You were born from a tiny seed within your mother. And your mother was born from a tiny seed within her mother, and so on, back and back through the dim hallways of time until we arrive at a particular cave in Africa, a hundred thousand years in the past, with a particular woman sitting by a fire.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	01 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669374961
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Alan Lightman's Probable Impossibilities
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You were born from a tiny seed within your mother. And your mother was born from a tiny seed within her mother, and so on, back and back through the dim hallways of time until we arrive at a particular cave in Africa, a hundred thousand years in the past, with a particular woman sitting by a fire.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Our imagination is limited by the things we can see and hear nearby. We can, however, imagine things that are far away and have never been experienced by us.

#2

Pascal was a polymath who was also a humanist and a scientist. He was born into the upper levels of French society, and he was a guest of the salons of Paris. He was also a pioneer in the theory of probability.

#3

Pascal was a French mathematician who developed a new field of mathematics called projective geometry. It deals with the properties of shapes that are unchanged when they are projected onto other surfaces. One of the concepts of projective geometry is the point at infinity, which arises in perspective drawing when one imagines extending a narrowing street indefinitely.

#4

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, philosopher, and religious thinker. He was also a member of an ascetic religious sect known as Jansenism, which was as strict as the Puritans. He was sickly for much of his life, but he died in 1662.

#5

The universe is expanding, and we can never see beyond a certain distance because there hasn’t been enough time since the Big Bang for light to have traveled from there to here.

#6

The Planck length is the smallest distance possible, and it is also the size of the universe as we know it. In the Planck world, space and time no longer have meaning. Instead, we have invalidated the words used to ask the question of whether space exists or not.

#7

The universe extends to infinity in the large and small, and man is a minuscule thing of the natural world between the two.

#8