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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Canales, Jimena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Time > Philosophy.
Relativity (Physics)
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955.
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941.
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Philosophers > France > Biography.
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.