Alan Lightman: The Accidental Universe - The World You Thought You Knew

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Harvard Book Store was pleased to welcome National Book Award finalist Alan Lightman for a discussion of his latest book, The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew.

Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences—old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite expanse of space.

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