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Einstein's dreams: a novel

By: Publication details: Vintage Books New York 2004Description: 140 pISBN:
  • 9781400077809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813​.54  L4E4
Summary: A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. 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. (http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/101512/einsteins-dreams-by-alan-lightman/)
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A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. 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.

(http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/101512/einsteins-dreams-by-alan-lightman/)

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