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Canales, Jimena, author.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Time -- Philosophy.
Relativity (Physics)
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
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The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.
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Canales, Jimena, author.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2015.
Subjects
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Time -- Philosophy.
Relativity (Physics)
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780691165349 (hardcover)
0691165343 (hardcover)
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viii, 479 pages ; 25 cm
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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