‘Searching’: Famed Physicist Alan Lightman Seeks Answers To Big Questions In New Docuseries, Encounters Advanced Android And Dalai Lama
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Physicist and author Alan Lightman has been pondering some major questions. For instance, “Where do we humans fit in the grand scheme of things?
Are we just atoms and molecules, or something more? How does consciousness arise from the material neurons in our brains?” The MIT professor and novelist goes looking for answers to those conundrums in the upcoming three-part documentary series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.
The series, directed by Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, premieres on public television stations on January 7, the same date it begins streaming on PBS.org for a 60-day window.
Lightman’s areas of inquiry are as vast as the universe and as tiny as the smallest particle of matter. “We travel with him to the prehistoric caves of Font-de-Gaume in France, where drawings and symbols suggest that—as long ago as 40,000 years—our early human ancestors were also searching for meaning,” a description of the series notes. “In Florence, Italy, we examine Galileo’s original telescopes.
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