Artful Musings
 
Alan Lightman Sunday, May 20, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas 408 Park Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75201 Community Partner: First Presbyterian Church of Dallas Situated at the intersection of art and science, Alan Lightman’s work boldly bridges the gap between these two very different but similar worlds. A theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard, Lightman is also an award-winning novelist. His provocative bestseller, Einstein’s Dreams, envisions a series of fables that Einstein might have dreamt while putting the final touches on his theory of relativity. The Los Angeles Times praised the book saying, “Lightman is an artist who paints with the notion of time.” His forthcoming novel, Mr. g, is the story of creation as narrated by God, and explores scientific, philosophical, theological, and ethical issues. The idea for Mr. g developed from a Boston group of MIT scientists and playwrights Lightman convened to discuss the merging of science and the arts. He noticed how often the subject of religion came up and asked himself "What are the boundaries of science, and how does science know what it knows and how does religion know what it knows?" Mr. g is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. "As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?" —Alan Lightman
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