Book
The physicist and the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time
Record details
- ISBN: 0691165343
- ISBN: 9780691165349
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Physical Description:
479 pages ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015].
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Untimely -- "More Einsteinian than Einstein" -- Science or philosophy? -- The twin paradox -- Bergson's achilles' heel -- Worth mentioning? -- Bergson writes to Lorentz -- Bergson meets Michelson -- The debate spreads -- Back from Paris -- Two months later -- Logical positivism -- The immediate aftermath -- An imaginary dialog -- "Full-blooded" time -- The previous spring -- The church -- The end of universal time -- Quantum mechanics -- Things -- Clocks and wristwatches -- Telegraph, telephone, and radio -- Atoms and molecules -- Einstein's films: reversible -- Bergson's movies: out-of-control -- Microbes and ghosts -- One new point: recording devices -- Bergson's last comments -- Einstein's last thoughts. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Time Philosophy Relativity (Physics) Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Bergson, Henri 1859-1941 Physicists United States Biography Philosophers France Biography |
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| Bethel Public Library | 115 CANALES (Text) | 34030130868877 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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