Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings is a masterly novel of

is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage

In the third story

and the fight over financial influence plays out once again

" but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family

was a life of tranquility or contentment

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings is a masterly novel ofThe acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities and impossibilities of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to