A new, three-part series, “Searching, Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science,” now airing on public television, features MIT physicist and author Alan Lightman, who explores timeless and deep questions about man and the universe with ethicists, philosophers, faith leaders and Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
According to American Public Television, distributor of the series, among the places it visits are “the prehistoric caves of Font-de-Gaume in France, where drawings and symbols suggest that—as long ago as 40,000 years—our early human ancestors were also searching for meaning”; Florence, Italy, where Galileo researched telescopes; “the giant atom smasher at CERN on the Swiss-French border, where physicists are trying to
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