Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science

Alan Lightman investigates how modern science helps us find our bearings in the cosmos.

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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Distributed nationally by American Public Television