The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.
| Author/creator | Canales, Jimena author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | viii, 479 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Parallel title | Physicist and the philosopher |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-449) and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2014047686 |
| ISBN | 9780691165349 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0691165343 hardcover |