A world without time : the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein
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A world without time : the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein
Basic Books, 2006, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index
"Paperback first published in 2006 by Basic books."-- t.p. verso
hbk版(first published in 2005)は別書誌<BA73473834>
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In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result reluctantly but he could find no way to refute it, since then, neither has anyone else. Yet cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded as if this discovery was never made. In A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau sets out to restore Godel to his rightful place in history, telling the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue the brilliant work they did together.
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