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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-449) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The physicist & the philosopher

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bibliography

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902936702

Responsibility statement

Jimena Canales

Sub title

Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time

Table Of 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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