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The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time /
"On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by argui...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The debate. Untimely
- "More Einsteinian than Einstein"
- Science or philosophy?
- Part 2. The men. 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 dialogue
- "Full-blooded" time
- The previous spring
- The church
- The end of universal time
- Quantum mechanics
- Part 3. The things. 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
- Part 4. The words. Bergson's last comments
- Einstein's last thoughts.