The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.

  • Canales, Jimena
Date:
[2015]
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Physicist and the philosopher

Publication/Creation

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Physical description

viii, 479 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-449) and index.

Contents

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.

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ISBN

  • 9780691165349
  • 0691165343