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Ladataan... Einstein's Dreams (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1989; vuoden 1993 painos)Tekijä: Alan Lightman (Tekijä)
TeostiedotEinsteinin unet (tekijä: Alan Lightman) (1989)
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Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. One of my favorite books ever. Pleasantly engaging, faintly melancholy in its reflections - an expected tone when Time is the subject - rarely revelatory. I expected something more in the way of disorientation. The cover describes this book as a "novel," but I do not feel this is accurate. Rather, it is a collection of short scenes that describe Einstein's dreams of alternative worlds that differ from ours in how time functions. Some of these alternative worlds did not make sense, but since dreams are used as a framing device, I suppose that's not necessarily unexpected. This was a very quick read, but enjoyable enough En 1905, mientras trabajaba en una modesta oficina de patentes en la tranquila ciudad suiza de Berna, el joven Albert Einstein esbozaba su teoría de la relatividad, una nueva concepción del tiempo. Inspirándose en estos humildes inicios, el físico y escritor Alan Lightman imagina a un Einstein de ficción que cada noche sueña con mundos en los que el tiempo se rige de maneras diferentes. En un mundo, el tiempo se congela en el momento en el que somos más felices, en otro, el tiempo transcurre hacia atrás o bien avanza más rápido en un barrio que en otro. Sueña también qué sucedería si conociéramos el fin del mundo de antemano, si no tuviéramos recuerdos o si no tuviéramos futuro. Los treinta breves relatos que forman este volumen abordan de forma poética cómo una u otra concepción del tiempo condicionaría de manera radical la actuación del ser humano.
A beautifully written and thought-provoking book. The dreams do more than just catalog our neuroses. They also underscore some fundamental conflicts in the human relationship to time. THIS book contains 30 brief fictional dreams. All are about time, and all are dreamt by Albert Einstein in Berne, in the spring and early summer of 1905, as he works on his paper 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' and proceeds inefficiently towards the special theory of relativity. Some contain distorted traces of his discoveries. In one dream, people live up mountains and build their houses on stilts, having discovered that time flows relatively more slowly as one moves further from the centre of the earth. In another, banks, factories and houses are all motorised and constantly on the move, for time is money and slows down as you accelerate, so the faster you go the more you have. Like the best fables, Lightman's seriousness is seductively cumulative. The writing, beautifully simple, conveys better than most texts the strangeness of Einstein's ideas. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinHeyne Allgemeine Reihe (9719) Tutkimuksia:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaan
A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein's Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
This book will get your imagination everywhere.
what if, time flowed backward
what if, time was circular
what if, time had different speed in different places
Could you imagine the world without time? (