Mr g  (English, Hardcover, Lightman Alan)

Mr. g is a novel about God and the Creation by theoretical physicist Alan Lightman.

Summary of the Book

Mr. g is the cosmic entity we all know as God. He has problems like us, a nagging Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva who try to give him advice. They live in the Void, and though they mean well, they don’t understand his troubles. Forced to satisfy their expectations, Mr. g sets out to create the universe. Omnipotent but not Omniscient, Mr. g makes time, space, and matter, and then creates stars, planets, animate matter, consciousness, and, finally, intelligent beings with moral dilemmas. He does this through trial and error, learning as he goes. He is not without competition, however, for his rival Belhor continues to challenge him to give an explanation for everything. Evil is a necessity, Belhor tells him, and tries to convince him to exempt his intelligent life-forms from the limitations of rationality.

About Alan Lightman

Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also written: Einstein’s Dreams, Great Ideas in Physics, and The Accidental Universe.

A graduate of Princeton University, where he passed out magna cum laude and was a part of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Lightman obtained his PhD at the California Institute of Technology. He formerly worked at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a senior lecturer in physics. Dr. Lightman won the Sydney Award for the best essays of 2011, Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology, and the 1996 Andrew Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics for linking science and the humanities.