Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is a great book by Alan Lightman.
The exploration of the tension between our longing for permanence and certainty and modern scientific discoveries that point to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.

As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always had a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was struck by the logic and materiality of the universe, which is controlled by a small number of forces. and weird rules. Those laws state that everything in the world is material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while gazing at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overwhelmed by the overwhelming feeling that he was merging with something larger than himself – a great unity and eternity, a sign of something absolute and immaterial.

Searching for the stars on an island in Maine is the result of these lingering urges, written as an extended meditation on an island in Maine, where Lightman and his wife spent their summers. Surname. Framing the dialogue between religion and science as a contrast between the absolute and the kin, Lightman explores our human quest for truth and meaning as well as the various methods of religion. and science in that quest. Along the way, he drew from a variety of sources, from Saint Augustine’s conception of absolute truth to Einstein’s theory of relativity, from belief in the divine and eternal nature of the stars to matter. and their discovered death, from the unity of the once indivisible atom to diversity. of subatomic particles and the recent concept of the multiverse.

What emerges is not only an understanding of the encounter between science and religion but also a profound exploration of the complexities of human existence.

I have read nearly everything Dr. Lightman has written for the average reader, beginning long ago with Einstein’s Dreams. For me, he’s one of those authors that really hit or miss for me. When he is good, he is very good; when he’s not… ah… Lately, maybe because he’s gotten a bit older, he’s written a few memoir-style books. I have to say, I don’t find this to be one of his best works. He doesn’t seem to have the skill to reveal his personal history in a way that makes this great memoir so powerful.

• Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

• By: Alan Lightman
• Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

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