Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science

Physicist and best-selling author Alan Lightman investigates how key findings of modern science help us find our bearings in the cosmos. What do these new discoveries tell us about ourselves, and how do we find meaning in them? Travel from the infinity of the small to the infinity of the large, meeting with the co-discoverer of one of the most distant galaxies yet known.

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The Stars & The Osprey

S1E101

Alan reconciles transcendent experiences with the material world of atoms and molecules.

The Big & The Small

S1E102

Explore the fact that humans are almost the same distance between an atom and a star.

Homo Techno

S1E103

How advances in science and technology are causing us to evolve into a new species.