The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.Description: viii, 479 p. : 25 cmISBN:- 9780691165349 (hbk.)
- 115 CAN
- BD638 .C326 2015
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Books | Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru | 1st Floor | 115 CAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30480 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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