Summary of Alan Lightman's Probable Impossibilities

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669374961

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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