Alan Lightman

Birth : 1948-11-28, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

History

Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Movies

A Trip to Infinity
A Trip to Infinity
Self
Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.