Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. Currently, he is Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Until 2003, he was John Burchard Professor of the Humanities at MIT.
Alan Lightman talks about his book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. This is a wide-ranging conversation on science, the sublime, transcendent experiences, consciousness, our longing for permanence, and who Alan would love to have a drink with.
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