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

Author
Canales, Jimena [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015
Description
viii, 479 pages ; 25 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Physicist and the philosopher
    ISBN
    • 9780691165349 (hardcover)
    • 0691165343 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2014047686
    OCLC
    902936702
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