CHALLENGE OF NEXAR – Atari 2600 Game

36 reviews for CHALLENGE OF NEXAR – Atari 2600 Game

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Martina A. Nicolls – April 22, 2023

   Searching for Stars is a physicist’s exploration of religion and science in the modern world; a meditation on contact and connections, and the human quest for truth and meaning about permanence and impermance, the material and immaterial, and life and death.Lightman begins in a primordial cave in the south of France in 1979 looking at the drawings of a previous civilization. He shifts to his summer holidays on an island in Maine, America, where, while watching the stars on a small boat at sea, he is overwhelmed by ‘something larger than himself’ – something absolute and immaterial: ‘My body disappeared. And I found myself falling into infinity.’ It was a feeling he had not experienced since viewing the prehistoric drawings in the cave in France.This is Lightman’s account of his own search for meaning outside of his scientific mind of logic and reason. The physicist’s view is that nothing is fixed, all is in flux, nothing persists, nothing lasts. He finds a need to think about life beyond the material world. ‘The stars in the sky, the most striking icons of immortality and permanence, will one day expire and die … The material of the doomed stars and the material of my doomed body are actually the same material. Literally the same atoms.’Lightman writes of scientists from 16th century astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei, atoms and ants, space and infinity, physics and cosmology, transition and transcendence, life and laws, dynamics and doctrines, motion and mortality,.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   WMarc – April 21, 2023

   I beg to differ with the rather negative reviews, and surprised at this writing to see only four reviews for what I found to be a thoughtful and thought provoking read. One reviewer stated: “I really thought the transcendent experience the author had in his boat was just the beginning of more insights into the spiritual world.” Well, this person missed the boat (pun intended). Lightman uses this transcendent experience as the reference point to how he has spent a lifetime as a scientist attempting to understand and perhaps even prove such experiences using the scientific world to do so. Because this reviewer seems to have missed this point, as well apparently disagreeing with some of the conclusions: “that he’s nothing more than a machine” or “no afterlife”, should be thrown overboard for claiming it as a “dishonest way to sell a book”.And to the reviewer who found this a “very disappointing read”, as one who is very much right-brained, never having read more than in passing Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et al. I very much appreciated the left-brained presentations of these and others work Lightman uses to present his case. Lightman’s writing style comes across as combination published author, university lecturer and conversationalist, which I’m perfectly fine with, because after all, he is accomplished at all three.I know in subsequent readings this book will continue to expand my knowledge of scientific principles, give me more things to ponder while providing.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   hilal isler – April 16, 2023

   “a very dark night sky seen from the ocean is a mystical experience. after a few minutes, my world had dissolved into that star-littered sky. the boat disappeared. my body disappeared. and i found myself falling into infinity. a feeling came over me i’d not experienced before…i felt an overwhelming connection to the stars, as if i were part of them…i felt connected not only to the stars but to all of nature, and to the entire cosmos. i felt a merging with something far larger than myself, a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute.”a wondrous delight. *heart-eye emoji* *heart-eye emoji* *prayer hand emoji* is basically how i feel about this book. five stars. thank you, professor lightman.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Picorto – April 11, 2023

   great writing and easy reading while still being thought provoking.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   JennieNienow – April 10, 2023

   My favorite read of 2018! Definitely going to explore more of Alan lightman’s other works. Philosophy meets science.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   [email protected] – April 7, 2023

   Concise, simple, thoughtful. Recommended reading for any fanatic of science or religion. The book shows that science and religion are not much different when it comes to having axioms and main assumptions. A nice didactic summary of basic sciences in the early 21st Century.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   tom d – April 4, 2023

   Wonderful perspective on how we can view the universe through both a scientific and spiritual lens.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   NurayAykin- Author of "Pomegranates and Grapes" – March 21, 2023

   Great book on how religions and science explain who we are, where did we come from? The “We” includes the people, all living things, earth, solar system, Milky Way, the matter. It felt like I was re-reading Sophie’s World – much smaller scale, with very clear explanations.I wish, after his magical night with the stars, he did not go back to his feelings about the nature and things that he experiences on the island. It just did not add to his wonderfully clear explanation of how science and religion differ and how they can collide at certain points of the unexplainable.I loved his ending: Our quest for finding answers to all our questions since the beginning will never end.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Hegelian – March 16, 2023

   This is a profound, engaging and thought-provoking book about our search for absolutes in a world where science tells us everything is relative. Even though the search is probably doomed to failure, we will continue to pursue it in the face of a wealth of evidence to the contrary.

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    Rated 5 out of 5

    Robert C Mathews – March 3, 2023

    Another Alan Lightman master piece